DBasine Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 is this a known issue? The word-wrap in preview differs from the printout's. Apparently the typefont acts differently; as a consequence the printout allows more words per line than the preview does. Result: I always count my total pages by doing Preview. But in the printout, there are less pages because of the different word-wrap. (Windows 2000 Server, Verdana of Time New Roman) Used only 1 textfield with merged fields. attachment: fp7 file: Account: 'Admin', no password Do preview in layout 'print huidig wat'. This results in 1 extra page with 1 line. If you print it out, it results in only 1 page because of the word-wrap (pdf enclosed). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maarten Witberg Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Just one page in preview using either font (Times NR is much smaller btw) on a mac standalone... kjoe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leader Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 It's a known rendering problem that has plagued Microsoft products and fonts for a couple of decades. It gets worse if you move through various versions of Windows... the font metrics don't maintain their integrity. It's kind of like machined products that aren't milled to a rigid degreee of accuracy. I use XP and I try to allow for rendering sloppiness. (I know Mac users are thinking 'We told you so!') Monospace fonts like Courier (New Courier TT) might give you some accuracy, but most of them are pretty ugly. You did not mention the printer you're using, and non-Postscript printers have a lot of leeway how to render. That's not to promise you'd achieve any relief using Postscript fonts, particularly on a non-Postscript printer. MS fonts and rendering are simply just sloppy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBasine Posted March 7, 2005 Author Share Posted March 7, 2005 Thanks, Leader! OK, now I know it is a known problem. I will try to make something out of it with Courier. I used an HPLaserJet8100, and printing it to PDF also resulted in 1 page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Often time, it's also caused by the printer substituting and using its own internal fonts for printing, rather than using the document fonts. It'll be an option somewhere in the printer properties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwb Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 I have been battling this one for years and still do not have a solution. Applies to printed and pdf output. I just joined the forum for some help on this subject and was hoping for a solution. There has got to more that this on the subject Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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