Print Preview - Sanity Check Please
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A text report I print from my MFC program is different in Print Preview versus hard copy. In fact zooming in and out in Print Preview changes what's displayed. Example: one column in my report might be:
My dog has fleas.But in Print Preview, this might show as:
My dog has flGiven Microsoft Word also shows these sorts of anomalies in Print Preview, I've always assumed it's a difference between rendering on the screen versus rendering on the printer. So, a sanity check please: should I worry about a bug in my program or not? (PS I've spent an hour checking the web for something that says "print preview is only an approximation and may never be an accurate representation of the printed output" - but haven't found any such statement.) Russell Robinson (russellr@rootsoftware.com) Author of TTMaker (Advanced Timetabling Software) http://www.rootsoftware.com
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A text report I print from my MFC program is different in Print Preview versus hard copy. In fact zooming in and out in Print Preview changes what's displayed. Example: one column in my report might be:
My dog has fleas.But in Print Preview, this might show as:
My dog has flGiven Microsoft Word also shows these sorts of anomalies in Print Preview, I've always assumed it's a difference between rendering on the screen versus rendering on the printer. So, a sanity check please: should I worry about a bug in my program or not? (PS I've spent an hour checking the web for something that says "print preview is only an approximation and may never be an accurate representation of the printed output" - but haven't found any such statement.) Russell Robinson (russellr@rootsoftware.com) Author of TTMaker (Advanced Timetabling Software) http://www.rootsoftware.com
print preview is only an approximation and may never be an accurate representation of the printed output. print preview does a whole lot of scaling to do what it does. sometimes it totally messes up font sizes (which may be why your text is being chopped - font didn't scale along with a clip box around it). the real test is the printer. if it works on the printer, i usually ignore whatever PP is doing. -c
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A text report I print from my MFC program is different in Print Preview versus hard copy. In fact zooming in and out in Print Preview changes what's displayed. Example: one column in my report might be:
My dog has fleas.But in Print Preview, this might show as:
My dog has flGiven Microsoft Word also shows these sorts of anomalies in Print Preview, I've always assumed it's a difference between rendering on the screen versus rendering on the printer. So, a sanity check please: should I worry about a bug in my program or not? (PS I've spent an hour checking the web for something that says "print preview is only an approximation and may never be an accurate representation of the printed output" - but haven't found any such statement.) Russell Robinson (russellr@rootsoftware.com) Author of TTMaker (Advanced Timetabling Software) http://www.rootsoftware.com
if you have Acrobat Distiller or PDFWriter, print to that and see if the PDF that comes up has the same problem... if it does, go into Acrobat and explore through all the objects (text boxes, white filled rectangle boxes) that are there, see if something is getting printed over the text or if the textbox for the text is too small to fit the entire text (maybe miscalculated the width of the text)
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