Re: Trouble with printing

From: Farrell McGovern (farrell_at_crowellsystems.com)
Date: Wed Dec 31 2003 - 13:59:43 EST

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    msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
    >>Hi!
    >>
    >>When I want to print documents from AbiWord, the layout is totally
    >>different than the one on the screen. The letters are blured and closer to each
    >>other, the whole document printed is at most 75% width than it should be. I use
    >>the AbiWord 2.0.2. on Windows 98. The Printer is Star LC-20 with all drivers
    >>properly installed. I can`t figure out what could be the problem and how
    >>should I solve it. I`d like to get some help...
    >>
    > It sounds like AbiWord has exposed some bugs in your printer drivers.
    >
    > A suggested work-around is to install ghostview from ghostgum and their
    > printer re-director. This will produce postscript file for you. You could
    > then try printing these postscript files with the ghostvoew program.
    >
    > Good Luck!
    >
    > Please tell us if this works. We often get printing complaints from
    > Windows users that often caused by buggy drivers. I'd very interested to
    > know if this work-around works because we could use it for many other
    > queries.

            Under Linux, we had the same type of problems with the Kerning and
    such, and it turned out that all we had to do was delete the old
    .AbiSuite directory after we had upgraded to a new version of the
    Abiword that had fixed the problem.

            I don't know if this helps at all under Windows...but I just wanted to
    mention it...

    ttyl
          Farrell

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    Farrell J. McGovern Crowell Systems Linux Systems Admin. Toll Free (US and Canada) 1-800-366-4564 farrell_at_crowellsystems.com http://crowellsystems.com

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