B Linky wrote:
Hi.
We have an old MS Word document which displays fine on screen, but
when you go to print it out it seems to be printing the "end of
paragraphs" as just CR instead of a CR+LF (thats what it looks like
anyway) so you have text all on top of each other and scrunched up
After much playing around, I discovered that unchecking Options ->
Writer -> Compatibility -> Use printer metrics seems to resolve the
problem.
The thing is, we have hundreds of similar 'legacy' documents and
trying to get the users to do this for every one just isnt going to
happen :)
Can anyone suggest a way of making 'use printer metrics' to be always
off? Or perhaps a batch file change (it would appear the setting is
held in the file itself)
Ive tried editing the system Compatibilty.xcu and I've tried clicking
"use as default", both only apply to new documents rather than
existing ones.
Saving the .doc as a .odt has no effect either.
thanks.
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I'm not too sure of my ground here but ...
1. There are two Compability.xcu files - on my XP system anyway. Did you
change the right one? I think the newer one is appropriate; my guess is
that the older one is in OO's own directory and it copies that to your
personal directory when you install the software.
2. Before changing the file, did you exit the Quickstarter? If its
running, the Quickstarter is represented by a blue/grey icon in the
System Tray. Right click on it and select Exit. Then start Writer from
Start>All Programs>... The Quickstarter seems to prevent option changes
from "sticking"; I think it holds files open so changes don't get
written to disk. Or perhaps it caches stuff so that changing the file on
disk has no effect till it terminates. I found it such a nuisance in
this regard that I have permanently disabled it via
Tools>Options>OpenOffice.org>Memory and then de-selecting it.
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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