Re: Character widths aren't the same on printing as on screen


Subject: Re: Character widths aren't the same on printing as on screen
From: Robert Sievers (bob@abisource.com)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 10:56:36 CST


At 10:32 PM 2/7/00 -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>I've been bothered by this for several releases. I write an invoice with
>AbiWord, and when I print it the tabs don't line up. I have since put
explicit
>tab stops to fix that, but here's a file I wrote to test it. Print it to a
>printer, or to a file and view with ghostview, and you'll see it doesn't line
>up. What's the fix?
>
>I am using AbiWord 0.7.8 on Linux-Mandrake 5.3.

This is bug #514, which is probably a duplicate of #475, but I wasn't sure,
so I left them both in bugzilla. When Bruce Pearson clobbered half a dozen
bugs a couple weeks ago, these were two that escaped.

And yes, they are quite annoying I am sure.

Robert Sievers
Open Source Evangelist



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