WordPerfect for DOS 5.1 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Dec 2005

Not necessarily true...

My Wordperfect 5 for DOS came with a Bitstream Font
engine that added Bitstream fonts to WordPerfect for
DOS.

I was NOT limited to the Printer Fonts, though I had
an HP LaserJet and a special WordPerfect Font
Cartridge for that which added many standard fonts to
the Printer as well...

This functionality was later added into WPDOS 6.x...

If I had to, I could do ALL of my current
WordProcessing needs on WPDOS 5.x or 6.x, and I did
for quite a while...

Regards,
Al Hartman

...
  Allison wrote:

> As to better docs... WordperfectV5/dos was better than any of the MS 
...
   apps for that
back then.  

 He wasn't talking about document creation, he was talking about 
...
  printing, for which he is right on the money.  If
you used Word 
...
  Perfect 5 for DOS, you were limited to the fonts
your printer 
...
  supported.  If you used Geoworks, or Ghostscript (I
used a retail 
...
  package called "GOSCRIPT"), or Win 3.1, you
could use any font you 
...
  want and the print subsystem would just rasterize it
as graphics.

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