WordPerfect 8

[glenn at aoi.ultranet.com (Glenn Burkhardt)]

> I downloaded it yesterday.  It has plenty of functionality, it was a snap
> to install, and I printed some good-looking test pages with it.  It
> _works_ pretty well, but it doesn't _look_ as good as Word, entirely
> because of the screen fonts (the printed fonts are fine).  What is the
> story with fonts in X?  Netscape looks OK, and hardly anything else does,
> and Netscape  seems to have its own fonts which nothing else can use.  I'm
> not about to go back to MS Windows, but I find it hard to sell free Unix
> to friends and family when most of the apps have clunky-looking screen
> fonts.

I'm curious to see what you're talking about.  Could you send me a document
that displays with clunky-looking fonts?  Thanks.

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