Re: [PLUG] KWord cut's off right edge when printing

["eric@lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

I had the same trouble early on with KWord.  I found that when I
started the document from the "US Letter" template it worked fine.
When I told it to start with an "empty" document it never failed
to default to A4.

Eric



On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:52:47PM -0500, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> i've tried reducing the margin, no luck. also, the text is cut off in the 
> print-preview, so it really has nothing to do with my printer. could it be 
> that the ps processor still thinks it's D4 or A4 size page?
> 
> On Tuesday 26 March 2002 09:40 pm, you wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:11:11PM -0500, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> > > I have the page formatted as US letter. But it cut's off the right edge
> > > when I print. Anyone know how to fix this?
> >
> > Is the text also misaligned? That is, are you losing the right side
> > because the left margin is too large?
> >
> > If so, go learn about how to teach printcap (or KWord?) about either
> > KWord or your printer's PostScript quirks. (Printing from KWord to
> > a PostScript file could make this easier to diagnose... does gv
> > show the same cutting off?)
> >
> > Note that a printer's actually printable area is distinct from the
> > size of the paper that you put into it.
> 
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