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> I don't know what this means.  I write a paragraph in OO, in Lyx, and in
> Abiword.  Same paragraph.  I then print it.  It looks identical regardless
> of
> what I used to generate it.  The text is whatever quality the printer can
> produce.  There is nothing magic about latex/lyx output to printer.

This is true for many standard printers, but not all. Well, maybe I should
say that you can't readily detect the differences when using most
printers. However, some printers have built in fonts, different pixel
ratios,margins, different ways of printing dots, etc., so a  file can
print differently on different printers. A common side-effect of this is
having to reformat a document when printers are changed. Postscript
generally does a good job of overcoming this problem by defining how the
page looks inside the document. So yes, LaTeX and Lyx output will be
different than something like Kwrite or Word which relies on the printer
to draw the page.


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