Subject: Re: Other printing bugs
sterwill@abisource.com
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 13:49:42 CST
Guy Powell wrote:
> Hi, I've been playing with AbiWord and have found it great... I
> attmpeted to import a MS Word 97 document. It loaded up fine and
> displayed on the screen, the problem came when I printed it. Parts of
> the document printed out fine (HP Deskjet 660C, Slackware 7, Easy Print
> Pro 4.something). Paragraphs, words and setences were splitting
> mid-line and the whole thing ended up 20 pages, this does not happen
> with abiword documents only my imported Word 97 one. Any ideas?
It sounds like we're "thrashing" our piece table with lots of little runs,
and our printing is having trouble measuring these offsets accurately.
Could you try something for me: try opening the Word97 document, and
then saving it as an ABW document (in a temporary place). Then re-load
that document, and make sure it looks correct in AbiWord. If so,
try printing it (you can print to a file, then use something like "gv"
or "ghostview" to get a PostScript look at it) and see if things line
up better.
> Also, a possible bug. If you select the font size (i.e. highlight it)
> and type in a number (to change the size) instead of updating the font
> size you end up typing in that wordinto your document.
Currently this is because we haven't implemented a way for the
toolbar combos to grab the input focus from the document area.
These combo boxes will allow user input in the future, but for now
you can usually choose a dialog and enter them there (Font size
can be done in the Format->Font dialog, Zoom can be done in View->Zoom
dialog, etc.).
-- Shaw Terwilliger
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