From: Jack Dodds (brmdamon@aci.on.ca)
Date: Sun Aug 10 2003 - 06:58:19 EDT
I have noticed some strange behaviour with Abiword on Windows 98. I
have now upgraded to 1.99.3 (on two different Win98 computers) but some
of this I have noticed with 1.9.1 and -maybe- earlier versions.
1. The cursor is sometimes not displayed in the correct place.
Specifically, I run Abiword (new document) and enter:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped
over the lazy dog.
Then do View-Zoom-Zoom...-Percent and enter "103" as the zoom percentage.
Now back to the Abiword window and with the mouse, put the cursor just
after the second "dog" and before the ".". Now hit backspace. The "d"
is deleted, not the "g".
The problem does not occur if 100% or 110% or 200% zoom is used. It
seems to happen when oddball zoom percentages are used. I encounter it
most often when "page width" zoom is used. The discrepancy in cursor
position is zero at the start of the line, and increases towards the end
of the line.
2. When documents are printed, some (not all) character widths appear to
be greater than when they are shown on the screen. The result is that
lines wrap sooner, and pagination gets messed up. In Windows documents
generally, printed versions often have line breaks at different places
than the screen display shows - but it is much worse with Abiword than
with other word processors.
Specifically, I run Abiword (new document) and enter:
m m m m m m m m m m m m m m ... and so on until the line wraps, and
there are five "m " on the second line.
Then I print (on a Canon BJC-250).
On the printed version, there are nine "m " on the wrapped line, i.e.
the line has wrapped eight characters earlier (4 "m" and 4 blank). The
actual line width is about 6.5 inches on the printed age, and also 6.5
inches according to the Abiword ruler on the screen. So, the "m "
combination is about 10% wider on the printed version. The problem does
not occur with all characters, "m" seems to be especially bad.
I have observed similar problems printing on two more sophisiticated
printers, a Lexmark C720 and a Konica printer/scanner/copier (don't know
the model).
On the Konica, I had another problem which might be related. I wrote a
memo and printed it. The font was Arial, 11 point. In the memo
wherever the two character combination "fi" appeared", it was replaced
with a dot. Some other character combinations also did this. In some
cases, a character partially overprinted the preceding character.
Right now the Abiword site appears to be down, or I'd enter these in
Bugzilla, and I will do so when I can. But in the meantime, are other
Windows users having these problems?
Thanks and congratulations to the developers for producing a great piece
of software! My university student daughter will really appreciate the
new footnote/table features - she likes Abiword on her Thinkpad 600
(Win98) but has had to finish off papers in OpenOffice to add these
features.
Jack Dodds
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