--- Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:No idea of the problem, but you might be able to work around it by slightly adjusting line spacing (which I just asked about yesterday - and got very good answers) to adjust the vertical dimension.
Joe
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
James W.Greenidge wrote:
Greetings:
I recently discovered that the print output of a document composed in
SCREENWRITER (the gold standard for screenplay formatting; you can
try the demo at
http://www.screenplay.com/products/mmscreenwriter/index.html) is
slightly different in size than the same document printed out in
OpenOffice/NeoOffice. It's not a different in font size, but rather
that OOo/NeoO's printout is somewhat "swollen" such that when both it
and SCREENWRITER's document are compared by superimposing both pages
against a bright light, OOo's rendering is larger by more than a
line's height and a few characters in width. It's as though line
spacing in OOo is minutely larger than printouts by other word
processors. As a check, I did the superimpose match trick with the
same document printed by Mariner Write and both it and SCREENWRITER's
pages are exactly twins to a pixel.
Is there a way to adjust the printout size of a OOo/NeoO document, and if so, can it be "fine-tuned" to that small a degree?
Thanks for any hints!
James Greenidge
It probably has to do with the way that OOo handles kerning and line spacing. I read an excellent set of articles on this in the last few months, but I can not find links to them :-(
Actually, I wonder if you can get what you need by changing the settings for
printing
under tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org ->Print
Im thinking this is because OOo may be doing extra optimizations that make the
output different than your other program.
Rob Winchester Download OpenOffice today!
Thanks All!
I discovered that by setting all line spacing, including headers, in a Courier 12 document at a proportional line spacing of 96% that OOo/NeoO prints out exactly pixel-to-pixel as other word processors as AbiWord and Screenwriter, Nisus and Mariner Write. Until now I had to put up with NeoO printouts being as different as two Courier line spaces at the bottom compared other WP printouts. I think Proportional 96% line spacing ought be a standard WP printout match setting (at least for Macs?).
James Greenidge
eMac OS 10.3.8 1.26 gHz 512meg
--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
