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From: darin@apple.UUCP (Darin Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Chooser Strangeness (really printing options ugliness)
Message-ID: <7131@apple.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 88 16:54:53 GMT
References: <2470@im4u.UUCP> <696@entropy.ms.washington.edu> <4964@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: darin@apple.UUCP (Darin Adler)
Organization: Apple
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Keywords: features and bugs

In article <4964@spool.cs.wisc.edu> planting@colby.WISC.EDU ( W. Harry Plantinga) writes:
> There's another thing about printing that really annoys me.  There are
> options that can be chosen in the print dialog that affect the way the
> page looks.  For example, in Word, selecting "fractional widths" makes
> more text fit on each line.  However, having fractional widths
> selected also makes the program run many times slower.  So what do I
> have to do to preview a paper that is to be printed with fractional
> widths?  Select print, select fractional widths, and hit "ok."  Then
> try to cancel the printing before anything gets printed.
> 
> This is ridiculous.  I have to start a printing and abort it just to
> see how the paper will look printed out?

What you describe here is a misfeature in Word. Normally, any options that
affect how the page looks are in the "Page Setup..." dialog, rather than the
"Print..." dialog. Microsoft made a serious mistake by moving some of these
options into the Print dialog, requiring the ridiculous technique above.

Carefully-written applications (and those which do not customize the printing
dialogs) will not exhibit this kind of problem.
-- 
Darin Adler, Apple Computer                          AppleLink:Adler4
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