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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Fwd: Some more printing woes
From:       "Stephan Hachinger" <StephanHachinger () compuserve ! de>
Date:       2001-10-04 20:17:00
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Faure" <david@mandrakesoft.com>
To: <koffice@mail.kde.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Some more printing woes


> > Now I have discovered a problem with kword.
> >
> > I just wrote a simple A4 document with 25mm margins (ie nowhere near
printer
> > limitations) and printed in through CUPS to a BROTHER HP1250 (which
emulates
> > a laserjet) siting on a windows machine (which is sharing the printer).
CUPS
> > is using an SMB connection to reach the printer.
> >
> > I used stylist to set the standard font to the True Type font "Times New
> > Roman" 12pt.
> >
> > When printing the document it seems to loose the last or last two
characters
> > off the right hand end of the line (cut off in mid character?)
> >
> > Changed the document so that the standard font was simply "Times" 12pt
> >
> > Document printed perfectly.
> >
> > Is there a problem with printing and the font metrics?  Is it a problem
with
> > kword or elsewhere?
>
Hmm, I have the same problem when using ttf fonts; maybe it's jsut better
not to use them :). There are also some font conversion tools or so out
there.

Cheers,

Stephan

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