From: Jack Dodds (brmdamon_at_aci.on.ca)
Date: Wed Dec 31 2003 - 22:46:20 EST
Bug 5578 documents a problem like this under Win98, and I think there's
more to it than buggy printer drivers. I find differences between the
screen displays and the printer, although not to the extent reported
here, i.e. 25%. Wordpad exhibits similar behaviour, so the problem may
be buried deeper in the Windows system. I posted some comments
yesterday. See
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5578
With the greatest of respect to the Abiword team, who deserve thanks
from all of us for a superd effort, a response to the "many other
queries" which tells Win98 users to install ghostview and use a
two-stage printing procedure is not likely to be well received!
I do hope to figure out how to build Abiword and perhaps contribute to a
solution.
Jack Dodds
Farrell McGovern wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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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