Word: files
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laserwriter is designed to work with the Macintosh, and any Macintosh file can be printed out directly. But, taking advantage of the laserwriter's high-quality fonts requires special laser-compatible fonts in your system folder...
...though drafts printed on your imagewriter will look a little funny). However, it's also possible to write a term paper with regular fonts laser-compatible. Simply use one of OIT's Mac system disks (which have the correct fonts), and then load in your Word or Mac Write file. Once in a Mac word processor, it's possible to define a block of text and change the font from the old image-writer font--such as Geneva or New York--into a laser font--such as Times Roman or Helvetica...
Printing from an IBM compatible file requires some advance preparation. Before going to OIT, a formatted version of the text to be printed must be created. Several of the leading word processors offer this as an option, usually called 'Create a Print File'. Preferable to a regular formatted file is a Postcript file which can be made with Microsoft Word or another Postcript compatible word processor...
Last night's crowd was given an eerie reminderof the theatre's fate when the program wasinterrupted by fire alarms from within thetheater, forcing the assembly to file onto thelawn to await the fire company...
...latest drive upgrade also comes with improved system processors, called ROMs. Most of the improvements in the new ROMs are invisible to the user, with the exception of a slightly different file storage system that allows you to create true sub-directories. For example, you might create one folder with all your wordprocessing programs and another folder with all your picture files...