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 ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
