Re: Printing Question From a Very New User

From: Ryan Pavlik (rpavlik_at_ryand.cjb.net)
Date: Tue Nov 25 2003 - 23:21:55 EST

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    Bob Chatelle wrote:

    > <snip>
    >
    >>>When I print a
    >>>document with AbiWord, the print is about two points smaller than when I
    >>>print the identical document with Word. Most of my documents use
    >>>
    >>>
    >12-point. I
    >
    >
    >>>have to boost this to 14 to get a comparable printout from AbiWord.
    >>>
    >>><snip>
    >>>
    >>>

    >>>Also, my images don't print when I use AbiWord.
    >>>
    >>>Any information or suggestions would be much appreciated.
    >>>
    >>>Thanks,
    >>>-Bob Chatelle
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>The problem with printout size has been nailed down and fixed, and if
    >>I'm not mistaken, it will be in the next 2.0.x stable release, which
    >>furthermore I believe is soon. (Let me check with the developer's list
    >>on that...)
    >>
    >><snip>
    >>
    >Actually, I can just print the documents with Word, which I will keep on my
    >system until I am confident I can ditch it permanently. I can wait until the
    >problem is fixed in the next release.
    >
    >
    >
    >>Could you elaborate more on the image problem? <snip>
    >>
    >>

    >>Very few of my documents use images. However, I have a brochure that
    >>contains two photos in jpg format. When I print the brochure with AbiWord
    >>there is just big white space where the pictures should be. Both pictures
    >>show up fine on the screen. And the brochure prints fine with Word.
    >>
    >>I don't do anything fancy. I just load the document and print it.
    >>
    >>-Bob
    >>
    >>
    So you're loading the brochure from a DOC file (Word format)? Have you
    tried copying and pasting everything but the images into a new document,
    then inserting the images through AbiWord (Insert:Picture), and making
    sure that you save this new copy as an AbiWord .ABW file?

    Please try this and reply to all so the list can figure this out. It
    seems like it may be a problem with wv, the Word document file loader.

    I will check the bug database to see if anything like this has been
    reported. If not, and if you could duplicate this some how (or use the
    actual problem file itself, if it's not confidential/proprietary), we
    can see if we can track this down.

    Thank you!

    Ryan

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