Subject: Windows 98 Printing Problem
From: Ted S. (fedya@bestweb.net)
Date: Sun Jan 27 2002 - 09:13:36 CST
I'm having a problem with Abiword in that I can't get it to print properly
(using Windows 98 and an HP deskjet 960c printer).
I want to use it for (among other things) editing text on Russian web pages
so that I can print them out and read them off paper instead of the screen.
(My version of MS Works isn't Unicode-compatible.) So, I created a file
with the various Cyrillic fonts, saved it with the .abw file type, and
printed it out. However, when it printed, the letters were improperly
kerned -- some where running into each other, while others were spaced
terribly far apart. Additionally, while I had created the document
entirely in 10-point fonts, the printout appears to be about 24-point.
Finally, the margin is all wrong. (FWIW, the proper font face was being
used in each case. The paragraph that was in Arial was in Arial; the
paragraph in Times New Roman was in Times New Roman, and so on.)
My first thought was that this might have something to do with using the
Cyrillic codepages in Windows fonts. So I decided to test this hypothesis
by taking a text table I have (ie. in a fixed-with font) and printing it
out in Abiword using 8-point Courier New (Windows-1252 codepage). The
printout used the correct font, but again, the margins were all wrong, and
the font was the wrong size -- in this case, I'm guessing about a 16-point
font was used.
Does anybody know how to get Abiword to print properly? Or is this a
problem with the printer?
Thanks in advance!
Ted
One person *can* change the world, but most of the time you probably
shouldn't. --Marge Simpson
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