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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KWord: Printing
From:       Kevin Anthoney <kanthoney () clara ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-11-19 19:15:28
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On Monday 19 Nov 2001 10:23 am, David Faure wrote:
> Ok, we are mixing two issues in the same thread, leading to some confusion
>
> * Printing with letters squashed together:
> I just got a hint at what could be causing that. KWord-1.1 tries to "zoom
> before printing" in order to print with a better quality. If some fonts
> don't work well when zoomed (as Nicolas just found out about bitmap fonts
> with the :unscaled parameter), this could be the problem. Anyone with this
> problem, please try deactivating the zoom before printing and tell me what
> happens. There are 2 ways to do that: either hacking kwview.cc,
> KWView::print(), or simply inserting an embedded e.g. kspread document -
> this disables zooming because zooming isn't implemented in the other
> koffice applications yet.
> If this fixes it, I can very easily disable "zoom before printing" for
> 1.1.1 ... but is the quality ok ?
>

I've hacked KWView::print(), and that does fix the problem. The quality 
looked OK in print preview for a simple test document, but that's all I've 
tried, so far.

-- 
Kevin Anthoney
kanthoney@clara.co.uk

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