Help! I'm experiencing a very irritating bug that didn't seem to
appear until I applied one of the FM 8 patches. I'm running FM 8.0.2
on Windows XP. I don't remember if this bug started in 8.0.1 or
8.0.2, but it didn't exist in FM 8.0.0, and it doesn't exist in FM
7.
Simply put, the spacing of the on-screen characters is wrong. Some
characters are smashed together and others have large gaps after
them. In Times New Roman 10, for example, every lowercase "m" has a
large space after it. Other font sizes, and other fonts, are also
affected. The problem doesn't seem to go away unless I use a very
large zoom-in factor (or zoom out, but then the text is illegible
anyway).
This makes it difficult for me to read and edit my own text, and it
makes it difficult to (e.g.) remove unwanted spaces.
This problem doesn't appear in printouts or PDFs, which leads me to
suspect that it was done on purpose, in order to make the on-screen
position of each character more closely follow its position on paper
when printed. If so, it seems like a misguided idea, and I would
prefer at least the option to have things back the way they were. I
am used to the idea that lines may not come as far over on the
screen as they do on the printed page.
I prefer legibility.
Can anything be done about this?
Thanks!
-- Ed
appear until I applied one of the FM 8 patches. I'm running FM 8.0.2
on Windows XP. I don't remember if this bug started in 8.0.1 or
8.0.2, but it didn't exist in FM 8.0.0, and it doesn't exist in FM
7.
Simply put, the spacing of the on-screen characters is wrong. Some
characters are smashed together and others have large gaps after
them. In Times New Roman 10, for example, every lowercase "m" has a
large space after it. Other font sizes, and other fonts, are also
affected. The problem doesn't seem to go away unless I use a very
large zoom-in factor (or zoom out, but then the text is illegible
anyway).
This makes it difficult for me to read and edit my own text, and it
makes it difficult to (e.g.) remove unwanted spaces.
This problem doesn't appear in printouts or PDFs, which leads me to
suspect that it was done on purpose, in order to make the on-screen
position of each character more closely follow its position on paper
when printed. If so, it seems like a misguided idea, and I would
prefer at least the option to have things back the way they were. I
am used to the idea that lines may not come as far over on the
screen as they do on the printed page.
I prefer legibility.
Can anything be done about this?
Thanks!
-- Ed