> On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 16:23:55 -0500, THEACK <the...@prodigy.net> wrote:

> >I am trying to do a WYSIWYG type of program.  My problem is with the NEW
> >COURIER font.  If I use this font on then screen at 12 point which
> >should be 10 CPI, I start having problems.  If I do 20 characters I get
> >a width of about 200 pixels.  This is 100 Pixels Per Inch not the 96
> >that it should be.  When printed it is right on the money.  Is there
> >away around this?  I have seen/used programs that show the screen vs.
> >printout very well.  How can this be done.

> Well, think of it like this: At 96 ppi, 10 characters per inch would
> mean that each character is 9.6 pixels wide. That obviously can't be
> done (without a lot of super-sampling/anti-aliasing). What Windows
> does is round off the character width to the nearest whole pixel.

> In order to get a screen view that looks _exactly_ like the printed
> output, you have little choice but to position each character
> individually.

> -Steve