Re: Printer fonts and screen fonts differ

[Pere Pujal i Carabantes <ppujal vodafone es>]

> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 00:47:41 -0700
> From: Raymond Lillard <rlillard sonic net>
> Subject: Printer fonts and screen fonts differ
> To: gnumeric-list gnome org
> Message-ID: <42F3199D 5040002 sonic net>
>
>
> In a nutshell, the printed (and previewed) output does not look
> like what I see on the screen.  The root of the problem is that
> the printed characters are wider on the paper (and in the preview)
> than they are on the screen.  They may be taller too, but that
> is more easily tolerated.
>
> My problem is exacerbated by the fact that this spreadsheet has
> many "super" cells that are an aggregation of adjacent cells
> with several lines of wrapped text.  The differences in character
> width cause additional lines of wrapping in the print version
> which results in hidden text.  Opening up the on-screen version
> results in unnecessary white-space due to extra cells being
> needed to prevent overflow in the print version.  No matter
> where or how I compensate for this, something looks ugly.

I run into similar problem when I run gnumeric whitout gnome
initialization like starting fvwm2 standalone.

If I run something like:
/usr/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon --oaf-ior-fd=31
and then start gnumeric, things go fine.



Hope it helps.
Pere