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Message: [QUOTE="John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh], post: 6857142"] Hi Tyler: On 15/2/06 5:17 AM, in article [email]CBE185B0-02E6-40CD-9358-A052B27FF53E@microsoft.com[/email], "Tyler Flynn" <Tyler Because you may have enabled Justification, Kerning, Hyphenation or PostScript printing options in Word. Notepad does not support these features. Now: Did you mean "Notepad" and are we talking about a PC copy of Word here, or did you mean "TextEdit"?? Interesting :-) OK, that's an artefact of the display resolution. Microsoft Word makes up its display in "twips", where a twip is one twentieth of a point (1/1440 of an inch). Your computer makes up its display in Pixels. For a 1024 x 768 display on a 15" monitor that's 1024 / 15 = 1/68th of an inch (actually, it's not: 15" is the diagonal, not the horizontal measurement. But you know what I mean...) Your printer makes up its pages based on its dpi rating. For a typical high-end printer that's 1/4800th of an inch. Now: Notepad/TextEdit simply plop the letters onto the line one beside the other, each taking up the amount of space indicated by the font outline for each letter. Word attempts to emulate on the screen what you are going to see if you print. So it first makes up the page image using the resolution and font scaling reported by your printer driver. It then attempts to make up a screen display that comes as close as possible to showing you what that will look like if you print. But, as you can see, a display that can't position things closer than 68 dpi is going to be left with positioning errors of up to 70 dots. Word has the choice of either displaying "half a letter" or mis-positioning the letter slightly. Nudging the letter too far to the right looks nicer on screen than chopping off bits of it. One way of thinking about this is to say that TextEdit's display is not good enough to show you the problem, Word's display IS. You should see the same effect in any application capable of precision text output. Really high-end applications such as Adobe CS 2 choose to do things the other way around: they generate two print images, one using screen resolution, the other using printer resolution. You don't "see" the inaccuracies that way, although they must still be there because computer displays cannot position any closer than their pixel pitch. Nothing: The other two applications are lying :-) Print it. Believe what you see printed :-) Cheers -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 [/QUOTE]

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