centris font problems i recently got a centris on my desk it s a vast improvement on my previous machine a iisi however i ve encountered a problem with fonts entries in a filemaker database which looked fine when printed from my previous mac using system now look wierd spacing between characters has increased greatly causing lines to be truncated i m using plain and bold helvetica in various sizes the increase in character spacing seems to occur for all sizes and styles i m using a mixture of truetype and fixed size fonts exactly as on my iisi when things worked perfectly we ve managed to get similar behaviour using word apple uk adopted their usual friendly approach and told us to call our local dealer god help us any ideas dr pete edwards department of computing science king s college university of aberdeen tel aberdeen ab ue fax scotland email pedwards csd abdn ac uk artificial flowers pieces of plastic and metal crudely fashioned to bear a limited superficial resemblance to real flowers but with no credible attempt to match their internal complexity in terms of form function or behavior artificial intelligence really smart computers
