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From: spraggs@ve7apu.uucp (John Spraggs - VE7ADE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MS Word 3.02 printing question
Message-ID: <1989Nov17.091635.18189@ve7apu.uucp>
Date: 17 Nov 89 09:16:35 GMT
References: <5276@ncar.ucar.edu>
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In article <5276@ncar.ucar.edu> bill@hao.ucar.edu (Bill Roberts) writes:
>OK, I'm like way confused...  I've written bunches of stuff on my Mac+
>at home using MS Word 3.02.  I've formatted the pages to look nice, neato
>text and fonts - all that stuff that the Mac is great for.
>
>So, instead of using my Imagewriter to print the stuff I thought I'd
>use a MacII at work, which is hooked up to a LaserwriterII NTX.
>Low and behold, I start up Word and open my documents and find that
>the page layout is totally hosed up!  
>
> [stuff deleted]
>--Bill

You are now on the other end of the 'What You See Is What You Get' stick.

The LaserWriter does not produce exactly the same font spacing, etc. as the
ImageWriter.  When you have a printer driver selected with the Chooser, the
Application gets all this information, plus the default margins, tab
stops, etc. from the Page Setup dialog.  Any application or DA that prints
is in the same situation, not just poor, much maligned MS Word. :-)

Since what you get is going to be different, what you see should be as well.

For example, you can't mix a printer with proportional spacing and a monospaced 
display without making lots of test prints to get it right.

You can verify all this for yourself by opening a file and then temporarily
selecting the Imagewriter Icon in the Chooser on one of the LaserWriter 
machines or the LaserWriter on your machine.  (Be sure to put it back where 
you found it, including the AppleTalk setting.)


Regards, John
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