Vicente A.S. Werner wrote:
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> Fecha: Jueves, 21 de Enero de 1999 03:50 a.m.
> Asunto: [SuSE Linux] WP8 Printing
>
> >
> >I have had some interesting results printing to my HP600 with WordPerfect.
> >Font sizes are typically wrong, spacing between characters ignored,
> >miscellaneous special characters ignored.
> >
> >The solution, strangely is to print everthing as "graphics". Are there any
> >potential explanations to this?
> >
> >Has anyone else observed this to this type of printer, or even to other
> types
> >of printers?
> >
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> >Arlen Carlson
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Hello !
>
> Yes I've suffered this same error with wp 5 for dos and with other old
> programs. It's caused because the when you don't say print all as graphics,
> the program tries to guess the font on the printer that matches most with
> the document one. So when you say print all as
> graohics , the program doesn't do that it just generates the pixmap for the
> page you're printing correctly. The only thing it's a bit strange to me it's
> that this kind of error was tipically associated with old noisy
> matrix printers and not with ink jet ones.
>
> Vicente Werner
Hello
I just got WP8 on the cover of PC Plus (UK mag), and saw a comment about
passing
the printing through postscript as the print driver. You can then send
your printing to the printer in the normal way. I will try myself soon.
Hope this helps
Owen
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