beachycove
Well-known member
Don't know what else to call this -- Quickdraw anomaly, perhaps?
I have just gotten around over the holidays to installing some productivity software on an A/UX machine, a Quadra 950 with the AWS95 (Pisces) card installed. It is connected to a Philips 150s LCD @ 1024x768 through a KVM, with the necessary monitor adapter in the mix for sense codes and such (on which my LCD is said to be a 19-incher).
Regular System 7 machines work just fine with this setup — though amusingly, I could not get any Apple-branded display other than one running at 640x480 to work. Happily, the Philips has an autosetup button which works like magic, and adjusts the monitor to what is coming from the machine through the KVM.
Alas, there is a problem: text does not display properly in a word processor, in this case Word 5.1a, unless I use Courier. I have turned off fractional widths etc., all to no avail.
The Word installation was done in the user directory; fonts have been installed both in the root System directory and in the User's directory (in the stock Applications directory) with no difference discernible in the display anomaly.
It is hard to imagine that people who said over the years that System 7 era applications work fine on A/UX have overlooked this problem, because it more or less makes the application unusable, so they must not have had it. What have I done wrong?
I have a spare Quadra 800 with an A/UX installation that I can experiment on, if someone could make some suggestions....
I have just gotten around over the holidays to installing some productivity software on an A/UX machine, a Quadra 950 with the AWS95 (Pisces) card installed. It is connected to a Philips 150s LCD @ 1024x768 through a KVM, with the necessary monitor adapter in the mix for sense codes and such (on which my LCD is said to be a 19-incher).
Regular System 7 machines work just fine with this setup — though amusingly, I could not get any Apple-branded display other than one running at 640x480 to work. Happily, the Philips has an autosetup button which works like magic, and adjusts the monitor to what is coming from the machine through the KVM.
Alas, there is a problem: text does not display properly in a word processor, in this case Word 5.1a, unless I use Courier. I have turned off fractional widths etc., all to no avail.
The Word installation was done in the user directory; fonts have been installed both in the root System directory and in the User's directory (in the stock Applications directory) with no difference discernible in the display anomaly.
It is hard to imagine that people who said over the years that System 7 era applications work fine on A/UX have overlooked this problem, because it more or less makes the application unusable, so they must not have had it. What have I done wrong?
I have a spare Quadra 800 with an A/UX installation that I can experiment on, if someone could make some suggestions....