Subject: Re: Abi-Bug - More Lines Print on Paper than on Screen
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 18:29:44 CST
Hi Micheal,
Please use the "fondAppropriateFont() method in the gr_Graphics
baseclass to make sure the layout fonts are the same for both screen and
printing.
I believe all these bugz are fixed in the linux version by doing this.
Cheers
Martin
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Michael D. Pritchett wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Virgil Arrington Jr. wrote:
>
> > I reported the potential bug. I am using an IBM Thinkpad 1410 laptop,
> > Windows 98 and an IBM Infoprint 12 laser printer. I use many different word
> > processors including MS-Word 2000, Corel WordPerfect 8, Atlantis Nova 1,
> > StarOffice 5.2, and AbiWord .096. With all of my programs except Abi, the
> > printed page matches the onscreen page. However, with Abi, I routinely get
> > more lines on the printed page than I do on the screen page. I assume that,
> > since Abi is the only program where I get this behavior, it is a problem in
> > Abi.
> >
> > Not being a programmer, I realize I could be wrong.
> >
> > Virgil
>
> Virgil -
>
> Most likely it is a bug in AbiWord and I appreciate your submitting it,
> but I have not been able to reproduce it. Can you provide any more
> information ( font this occurs with (ATM or TTF) - or sample document ).
> Anything more to help me track down this errant behavior and correct it.
> This is a nasty bug that should be squashed before the 1.0 release and I
> will focus on it especially once I can reproduce it locally.
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> Michael D. Pritchett
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