Greetings:So not to leave in the dark those who offered solutions to me, I found the reason for my problems in the NeoOffice forums suggests that it is insoluble due to OOo's coding.
> I'm having difficulty creating a 57 lines deep Courier 12 manuscriptwith a header with a blank line underneath, and a top margin of .3 inches and bottom margin of .8 inches, which is the standard format in Movie Magic Screenwriter. When I try to format Writer this way, the pages randomly drop out of 57 lines a page to 56 lines starting> from page 4 on up. How I create consistently 57 line deep pages as> mandated standard screenplay format? (free demo for example at http://www.screenplay.com/products/demos.htm#scw )
From: Andrew Fisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [users] Can't format 57 lines deep only pagesYou might want to try the scale to fit option in the paper handling section of the print dialog. How is you line spacing set? What kind of printer are you using -- and which driver?
From: Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [users] Can't format 57 lines deep only pages
Have you created a new Page Style that has these characteristics?
F11 will open a window that will allow you to do this. After opening
this window, click the Page Styles icon (probably the fourth icon from
the left). Right Click Default, and select New from the context menu.
Enter a name for this new page style. Select the name you chose as the
next Page style. Use the tabs to set the header and footer the way you
want them.
Alas, No Go guys! Thanks for the assist! ******* From NeoOffice Trinity Pages
Most likely, the problem is that Apple's version of the Courier font has different metrics than the Microsoft version of Courier. There is a common misconception that fonts with the same name from different font creators are exactly the same.Patrick Luby
Yes, I follow your logic, but I just found out by a hint that, unlike OOo, the identical paper printout from Magic Screenwriter and Mariner Write 3.7.0 when held tight together against a strong light exactly match font pixel-per font pixel, space per space, margin per margin, so I guess this leads me to assume that maybe Screenwriter and MW supply their own Courier fonts from the same vendor while OOo restricts itself only to Apple's standard fonts? I dunno (you magnificent mavens are the brains!) In another OOo mail list someone proposed whether there was any way to literally alter the proportionate size and spacing of OOo fonts to match the printed renderings of MW and Screenwriter fonts. Again I dunno.
If the fonts match up for other applications, then a possible cause is OOo's metric rounding. Since OOo was developed on Windows, the notion that font metrics are integer values is embedded throughout the code. In reality, most fonts have metrics that contain decimal values so OOo rounds these values to the nearest integer. This isn't noticable in a line or two, but it can be really noticable with several hundred lines.Patrick Luby
I appreciate all the help from Patrick and all here! James Greenidge --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
