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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Ugly printout with KWord
From:       David Faure <dfaure () klaralvdalens-datakonsult ! se>
Date:       2003-04-02 19:43:11
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On Wednesday 02 April 2003 19:39, Marc Heyvaert wrote:
> 
> Well, I can't help you there, wish I could because I would very much like to get \
> involved in the Koffice project, but my programming is very, very rusty (I am \
> working on it though)... I experience the same problem and I agree that some fonts \
> work better than others. Some don't work at all. I have taken some truetype fonts \
> from my Windows PC and installed them ont my Linux PC, but with very mixed \
> results... A pity, like someone else wrote a week or so ago, that we can't choose \
> what fonts we display in the drop down box... I am writing this because I hav found \
> out that even when you use a font that works well, the left margin doesn't seem to \
> be right, not straight I mean, and overall all fonts look very "bold". For me this \
> makes KWord next to unusable, which is a pity. I am working on 2 major text \
> projects at this moment, 1 paper (100 pages) and one quarterly newsletter (36 pages \
> - two columns). For both projects I chose to use the lyx/latex tandem, although I \
> hate the inflexibility of that system. But the output is very good! Makes me wonder \
> if going for true WYSIWYG is really a good idea in an environment where you don't \
> control all parameters (you make reference to the postscript interpreter)... Sorry \
> again that I don't bring a solution.

Note that you can use KWord for editing, and then export to LaTex,
and print the result...

- -- 
David Faure -- faure@kde.org, dfaure@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Qt/KDE/KOffice developer
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions
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