Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!dftsrv!mimsy!mojo!burgoyne From: burgoyne@eng.umd.edu (John R. Burgoyne) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Word Perfect -> Word for Windows Message-ID: <1991Feb15.173709.6780@eng.umd.edu> Date: 15 Feb 91 17:37:09 GMT References: <5900@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 38 >You should wait for WordPerfect for Windows, though. > >Chuck My big gripe with W4W is that the printer tray, orientation, and paper size are outside the scope of the program and are instead part of the Windows operating system. WP for Windows will have the same inherent problem unless they disregard the Windows printing standards. In Word Perfect a document is associated with a printer, orientation, paper size etc. So if you have multiple printers or you work with documents of different orientations and page sizes, you don't have to go to the blasted windows printer and page setups each time you load a document which differs from the last one in one of the above attributes. I think I'll continue using text mode WP for the vast majority of my documents until this problem is removed. (Except of course, when I'm lucky enough to use VI, like right now.) I can understand MS's goal in having printing operations look the same for all applications, but they really screwed those of us who need more flexibility in printing. MS technical support said I could program the necessary printer codes into my document, thus fooling the Windows Page setup, but I really don't want to do this. (Who would when you can do it with such finesse in WP?) Besides, this doesn't solve the problem of having a document associated with a printer and a unique printer port. Please fix this one MS, or WordPerfect please ignore the Windows printing standards in WP4W. Robert