[opensuse] subtle format change in OOo from suse 10.1 to 10.2
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have an OpenOffice document that printed in one page on SuSE 10.1, and goes up to two pages in 10.2: a single lone line goes to the second page. Why? Well, superposing printed pages from before and now, and looking with a strong light behind the paper, I notice that line space and paragraph spacing has increased! So... well, I still have a partition with 10.1, so I boot it up, load the same file, look at the paragraph spacings, and... it is the same: 0.04" above and below a paragraph, and single spacing or .20" from line to line. I can only conclude that an inch (or a centimeter) is different in both versions of SuSE... or something of the sort. How come? It appears that I have to change spacing to .16" to get the same result. Another hypothesis. ¿Could it be that the same font is bigger in 10.2 than it was in 10.1? I'm using Times and Helvetica... As far as I can see, comparing printed results, Times 11 prints the same. Well, the same width, the height I can't judge. But a line in Times 14 is shorter! Another weird thing... some title lines (times 12, bold) print in cursive at low resolution and non cursive at high res - hold on, it is using "times" instead of "Times", and "times" does not exist. Has no effect on the page length. One thing corrected, though. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF5LCitTMYHG2NR9URAttTAJ9jr8dDjPoM2Vyibb9+i9FRI1UjVwCfTzuS 24pdkrEvuAe13Dag4krSGOY= =wWXj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 23:28 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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Hi,
I have an OpenOffice document that printed in one page on SuSE 10.1, and goes up to two pages in 10.2: a single lone line goes to the second page. Why?
Well, superposing printed pages from before and now, and looking with a strong light behind the paper, I notice that line space and paragraph spacing has increased!
So... well, I still have a partition with 10.1, so I boot it up, load the same file, look at the paragraph spacings, and... it is the same: 0.04" above and below a paragraph, and single spacing or .20" from line to line.
I can only conclude that an inch (or a centimeter) is different in both versions of SuSE... or something of the sort. How come? It appears that I have to change spacing to .16" to get the same result.
Another hypothesis.
¿Could it be that the same font is bigger in 10.2 than it was in 10.1? I'm using Times and Helvetica...
As far as I can see, comparing printed results, Times 11 prints the same. Well, the same width, the height I can't judge. But a line in Times 14 is shorter!
Another weird thing... some title lines (times 12, bold) print in cursive at low resolution and non cursive at high res - hold on, it is using "times" instead of "Times", and "times" does not exist. Has no effect on the page length. One thing corrected, though.
Just a wild guess, did you set the width/height of the monitor in 10.2 and is it the same as 10.1? Might seem weird but may the culprit. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@bout-tyme.net> [02-27-07 18:13]: [...]
Just a wild guess, did you set the width/height of the monitor in 10.2 and is it the same as 10.1? Might seem weird but may the culprit.
Well, you did say 'wild guess'. Would really be 'wild' for the display parameters to affect the print output :^) -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 OpenSUSE Linux http://en.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 18:24 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@bout-tyme.net> [02-27-07 18:13]: [...]
Just a wild guess, did you set the width/height of the monitor in 10.2 and is it the same as 10.1? Might seem weird but may the culprit.
Well, you did say 'wild guess'. Would really be 'wild' for the display parameters to affect the print output :^)
Must be the _Wild_ Turkey I'm drinking. :-) But I have seen it affect printouts in the past. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
I have an OpenOffice document that printed in one page on SuSE 10.1, and goes up to two pages in 10.2: a single lone line goes to the second page. Why?
Are you using the same PPD file for your printer in both versions? I've found switching print drivers often changes things like margins and the printable area of the page. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-02-27 at 15:21 -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
I have an OpenOffice document that printed in one page on SuSE 10.1, and goes up to two pages in 10.2: a single lone line goes to the second page. Why?
Are you using the same PPD file for your printer in both versions? I've found switching print drivers often changes things like margins and the printable area of the page.
Hum! Actually... yes, in 10.2 I updated turboprint... dunno, it might have affected :-? But I'm not seeing a variation in page margins or printable area, but in the actual distance between lines, which is defined by OOo. I can test by setting a standard driver without turboprint. Hold on. [...] No, I switched to the standard cups printer and the problem is the same. Another test: I just used OO-draw to print a 0.5 cm grid, and it prints almost exact: less than half a milimiter error in 27 centimeters. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF5Nj9tTMYHG2NR9URAu86AJ9LntuwyDSEfh8D6o6idW3Ujui1lQCeNe/p VjtWXrgMj1y3SaKfL2i4Iio= =SOI8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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