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- From: tjr@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (thomas.j.roberts)
- Subject: Re: WFW screen display slightly different that print
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:37:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.153731.29574@cbnewsc.cb.att.com>
- References: <1993Jan21.122336.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
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- From article <1993Jan21.122336.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>, by cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald, PC Software Consultant, CSC, UoC, NZ):
- > In article <CHAMPLIN.93Jan19140829@virgil.pa.dec.com>, champlin@pa.dec.com
- > (Virgil Champlin) writes:
- >> Please forgive me if this is an faq but I can't locate this group's faq.
- >> Can I correct a problem where the screen display of a WFW 2.0 document
- >> is slightly different than it prints on my DJ500. I am using a TT font
- >> (Century Schoolbook) and the WIN 3.1 hpdskjet driver. The printed
- >> output is correct but the screen output (default VGA driver) extends
- >> slightly beyond the right margin. I use the "show how it will print..."
- >> option and the WFW book indicates this is a printer vs. screen font
- >> problem but I thought this wasn't supposed to happen with TT fonts.
-
- Is this "Print Preview" mode (File Menu) or "Page Layout" (View Menu)?
- What is "show how it will print..." - I don't recall that
- specific phrase.
-
- In page layout, screen fonts are used which are "as close as possible"
- to the printer fonts. Small differences are inevitable, even with
- TT fonts (e.g. the pixels-per-inch differ; individual characters
- are quantized to an integral number of pixels - over the width of a
- line a series of 1/2 pixel per character errors can add up to something
- visible).
-
- In print preview mode, you're more likely to see it as it will
- look on the printer. Note, however, that the correspondence
- really depends upon precisely how it was programmed internally by
- Microsoft. If you don't use printer-resident fonts, it is possible to
- program a "print preview" mode which shows exactly what will be
- printed (limited to the screen resolution, and perhaps with
- magnification/reduction). I have done so, and there is a
- pixel-to-pixel correspondence between printer and screen.
- I do not know whether Microsoft made the effort to be exact
- (it takes more effort, and is a bit slower, than the usual
- method).
-
- Tom Roberts att!ihlpl!tjrob TJROB@IHLPL.ATT.COM
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