Subject: Re: Size of Word translations
From: Thomas Fletcher (thomasf@qnx.com)
Date: Mon Apr 17 2000 - 18:26:36 CDT
Thanks to all who tried it ... it just so happens
that I don't have a font that maps to Arial so
I use the default Times New Roman and of course the
type ends up being a different size.
Thanks,
Thomas
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, sam th wrote:
> 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?
> >
>
>
> 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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