Re: Funny looking Fonts [was Re: OpenOffice.org]

Laurel Jones wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Actually, the page looks great when I zoom to 200 but
>it doesn't print well.. ah, the crucial moment of
>truth...
>
>Laurel
>
>
Please file a bug with your printer model and other information (sample
document would be great) at http://bugzilla.abisource.com/

You may be able to use this workaround (which actually provides a nice
feature as a bonus): download PDF Creator from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ (the GPL version) and
install it - it will install a fake "printer" into Windows (let me know
if you use a different operating system) that will let you make PDF's
(Adobe Acrobat files) from any program that can print, including
AbiWord. These can then be printed easily with Adobe Reader, or
emailed, or put on the web, or whatever - PDF's are versatile.

Hope this helps! I have a few more comments below...

>--- Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
>
>
>>On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Laurel Jones wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 12:34:07 -0800 (PST)
>>>From: Laurel Jones <loljones@yahoo.com>
>>>To: abiword-user@abisource.com
>>>Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org
>>>
>>>
>>>I think that both Open Office and Abiword are
>>>
>>>
>>great.
>>
>>All software sucks, some software sucks less ;)
>>
>>
>>
>>>Both have their bonuses and both have their
>>>limitations. But they're both free! And that is a
>>>
>>>
>>good
>>
>>
>>>thing to have in common.
>>>
>>>
>>>Anyway, on to a different question:
>>>
>>>I was typing something using arial the other day
>>>
>>>
>>and
>>
>>
>>>it seemed like the formatting of the font between
>>>words was off -
>>>
>>>
>>Things can often look a bit wackey if you have the
>>Zoom set to page width.
>>Changing the Zoom to something like 100/150/200
>>should look a lot better.
>>
>>
>>
Actually, it's usually just multiples of 100 that look the best (100 and
200 - 150 can sometimes show bugs).
However, I was under the impression that our display and print quality
were actually not too bad in the 2.4 series.

>>>Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>
If you find any specific cases, like letter pairs, or font zooms, or
certain formatting, or whatever, please report them to the AbiWord
Bugzilla so we have record of them and can more easily resolve them.

>>There might be more to it than quirks in the Zoom
>>behaviour but at
>>least you can quickly try that out first and maybe
>>some one can come up
>>with a better answer later if that is not the
>>problem you are seeing.
>>
>>Sincerely
>>
>>Alan Horkan
>>
>>Inkscape http://inkscape.org
>>Abiword http://www.abisource.com
>>Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/
>>Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org
>>
>>Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
>>
>>
>>
>
>
Thanks for using AbiWord!

-- 
Ryan Pavlik
AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer
www.abisource.com
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