Strange letter spacing from AppleWorks

I am getting strange letter spacing with some fonts from AppleWorks. There is more space between some letters than others—some letters are almost touching each other, while there is a gap between others, creating an ugly appearance. I printed out the same text in the same font from TextEdit and it looked beautiful. The problem is not confined to just one font or document. I thought I had the latest version of AppleWorks,which is 6.2.4. I have a Brother HL-5250DN laser printer.

AppleWorks 6 is really an OS 9 application carbonized (quickly) to run in OS X & it has never been coded to take advantage of most of the "bells & whistles" of OS X, such as font display. TextEdit is a cocoa application - OS X only. The problem you're seeing may be fixed by turning Fractional Character Widths in Preferences > General… > Topic: Text on (or off if it's on). Some users like the system hack, Silk. You can find it with a search on MacUpdate or VersionTracker.
The last version of AppleWorks is 6.2.9, released in January, 2004. Here at the links I have for the 6.2.9 updater. The first has a link to the North American updater in the upper right & links to other languages further down.
North American/US
International/UK
French
German

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