Text gaps when printing!

[Eric]

I'm trying to print out a resume. Format looks good on screen and in
"Print Preview," but when I print, I get these gaps in the text, many
of which are lined up like tabbed spaces. In the document I don't see
any tabs or other markings added to the ruler - it looks normal. THE
GAPS ALWAYS APPEAR AFTER BOLD TEXT. All of the text is Geneva 10
point. When I change the bold words to plain text, the gaps go away.
Thanks,
Eric

 

[Elliott Roper]

I'm trying to print out a resume. Format looks good on screen and in
"Print Preview," but when I print, I get these gaps in the text, many
of which are lined up like tabbed spaces. In the document I don't see
any tabs or other markings added to the ruler - it looks normal. THE
GAPS ALWAYS APPEAR AFTER BOLD TEXT. All of the text is Geneva 10
point. When I change the bold words to plain text, the gaps go away.
Thanks,
Eric

I betcha this is a font problem. Geneva is the Macintosh equivalent of
crabgrass.
The solution is heavily dependent on which flavour of Mac OS you are
using and whether you want to go on using Classic.
Before you go crazy, try printing to PDF and printing from there using
Preview. Also, try setting you CV with a different font.

If you are in OS X 10.fairly_recent, there is a Geneva of last resort
in System/Library/Fonts - where it should remain. Indeed you need
superhuman aka root privileges to even dent it. You should be able to
do without every other copy.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

What version of Word are you in?

Check to see if the same thing happens when you print to PDF. If not, it's
probably a printer driver problem.

Click ¶ on the standard toolbar to show nonprinting characters. Grey
characters will show up denoting spaces (dots), paragraph marks (¶s), etc.
See if anything odd appears when the gap would be. More (tangential) info on
those:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

Did you design the resume or use a template from somewhere else, and where?

DM

 

[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

I betcha this is a font problem. Geneva is the Macintosh equivalent of
crabgrass.
The solution is heavily dependent on which flavour of Mac OS you are
using and whether you want to go on using Classic.
Before you go crazy, try printing to PDF and printing from there using
Preview. Also, try setting you CV with a different font.

If you are in OS X 10.fairly_recent, there is a Geneva of last resort
in System/Library/Fonts - where it should remain. Indeed you need
superhuman aka root privileges to even dent it. You should be able to
do without every other copy.

You need to use a nice pretty font such as ITC Benguait. Geneva beside being
crabgrass as so elloquently described is a monospaced font (all charcters including
spaces occupy exactly the same ammount of space) Fonts such a Beguait are
proportional spaced fonts and Character take up just enough space to draw the
character with just a little space left. So that spacing evens out between words.
and when you use hyphens when using justified text they look even better.

Bookman is another good choice as well.

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[Elliott Roper]

You need to use a nice pretty font such as ITC Benguait. Geneva beside being
crabgrass as so elloquently described is a monospaced font (all charcters
including

Ha! That's what Elliotts aspire to -- Elloquence!

Thinking about the original problem. I'm no longer so sure that it is a
font problem. Nothing except a very funny program would have
miscomputed the width of a whole phrase of bold type and then shove the
insertion point over into the sky. Has the document been anywhere near
Macromedia Flash? ;-)