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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Display DPI affects printer output
From:       Dik Takken <D.H.J.Takken () phys ! uu ! nl>
Date:       2006-09-06 21:01:33
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0609062252060.10726 () venus ! phys ! uu ! nl
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, David Faure wrote:

> On Friday 18 August 2006 13:56, Dik Takken wrote:
>>
>> I just discovered that the printer output is affected by the DPI settings
>> of the display. While experimenting with by X.Org settings, the display
>> DPI settings were all wrong at some point (180x90 DPI or something). The
>> result is that a sheet of A4 paper in KWord appears to be compressed in
>> the horizontal direction. Perfectly understandable. However, when I print
>> the A4 document, the characters on the printout also appear compressed in
>> the horizontal direction.
>
> Well, that's called WYSIWYG. You get on the printer exactly what you see on screen,
> anything else would be a bug.

Ok, now I don't get it. How should changing display DPI settings change 
how an existing KWord document will look when printed? If I *really* had a 
180x90 DPI display, the document would look OK again in KWord, but I don't 
believe it would change printer output to look normal again. How can KWord 
know if a have a *real* 180x90 DPI display attached, or if my DPI settings 
are simply wrong?

Dik
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