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From: neilh@microsoft.UUCP (Neil Hoopman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MS Word 3.02 printing question
Message-ID: <9109@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 89 01:57:29 GMT
References: <5276@ncar.ucar.edu> <18233@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: neilh@microsoft.UUCP (Neil Hoopman)
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In <18233@bellcore.bellcore.com> sdh@wind.UUCP (Stephen D Hawley) writes:
>In article <5276@ncar.ucar.edu> bill@hao.ucar.edu (Bill Roberts) writes:
>>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!  
>
>Your problem is that MS word is trying to format for an imagewriter on
>a LaserWriter.  Oops.  What you see is not QUITE what you get.  

Actually, Word _is_ showing you what you get.  There are many differences
between the character spacing on the Imagewriter and the Laserwriter.
I think that limiting the Laserwriter to the precision of an Imagewriter
would be much less disirable than a change in word wrap.
 
>Thank you Microsoft for one of the most
>counter-intuitive travesties of a Word processor for the Mac market that
>you can get away with because you're huge.
>
>Oops.  Excuse my flame.

I'm not saying that Word is flawless, but perhaps in this case you
should put your phaser on "stun" :-).  Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly
on this problem.  All the Macintosh word processors that I've seen
react to changing printers in one way or another; most of them very
similar to the way Word handles it.

When you change between printers in the Chooser, you get the message "Be sure
to choose Page Setup and confirm the settings so that the Application
can format the document correctly for the Imagewriter/Laserwriter."  This
message is the System telling you to expect this change.

(Actually, in Word you don't have to go to Page Setup; it makes the
adjustments automatically after you change printers.)

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