--- Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No idea of the problem, but you might be able to work around it by
> slightly adjusting line spacing (which I just asked about yesterday -
> and got very good answers) to adjust the vertical dimension.
>
> Joe
>
> Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
>
> > James W.Greenidge wrote:
> >
> >> Greetings:
> >>
> >> I recently discovered that the print output of a document composed in
> >> SCREENWRITER (the gold standard for screenplay formatting; you can
> >> try the demo at
> >> http://www.screenplay.com/products/mmscreenwriter/index.html) is
> >> slightly different in size than the same document printed out in
> >> OpenOffice/NeoOffice. It's not a different in font size, but rather
> >> that OOo/NeoO's printout is somewhat "swollen" such that when both it
> >> and SCREENWRITER's document are compared by superimposing both pages
> >> against a bright light, OOo's rendering is larger by more than a
> >> line's height and a few characters in width. It's as though line
> >> spacing in OOo is minutely larger than printouts by other word
> >> processors. As a check, I did the superimpose match trick with the
> >> same document printed by Mariner Write and both it and SCREENWRITER's
> >> pages are exactly twins to a pixel.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to adjust the printout size of a OOo/NeoO document,
> >> and if so, can it be "fine-tuned" to that small a degree?
> >>
> >> Thanks for any hints!
> >>
> >> James Greenidge
> >
> >
> > It probably has to do with the way that OOo handles kerning and line
> > spacing. I read an excellent set of articles on this in the last few
> > months, but I can not find links to them :-(
Actually, I wonder if you can get what you need by changing the settings for
printing
under tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org ->Print
Im thinking this is because OOo may be doing extra optimizations that make the
output different than your other program.
Rob Winchester
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