Re: Size of Word translations


Subject: Re: Size of Word translations
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 17 2000 - 15:21:36 CDT


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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Thomas Fletcher wrote:

> All,
>
> Someone was using AbiWord for Photon to take a
> look at a word document and they noticed that the
> page seemed to be a lot "narrower" than it was
> under Word (as a result their document which was
> one page long, became one and a half). Have other
> people seen this before?
>
> Also I've got a word document which has a line
> and a right justified text. When it imports into
> AbiWord it ends up with two lines:
>
> ie it should look like
>
> ------------------------------------
> Engineering Report
>
> instead looks like:
>
> ------------------------------------
> ------------------Engineering Report
>
> Can anyone verify this with their AbiWord?
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Thomas (toe-mah) Fletcher QNX Software Systems
> thomasf@qnx.com Neutrino Development Group
> (613)-591-0931 http://www.qnx.com/~thomasf
>

I get the following result from opening your attached document.
<15 columns snipped>
_______________________________________________________
                                Custom Engineering Proposal

I presume this is the intended result. I see no problems on my machine.
Current margins are 1.5 in on the sides.

           
                                     sam th
                                     sytobinh@uchicago.edu
                                http://bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu
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