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hemstree@handel.CS.Colostate.Edu (charles he hemstreet) writes:
>When you go to the chooser to select the laser, it reformats the
>document.  How can we keep this from happening?

More or less, you can't. More to the point, the IW and LW printers
are going to have different formats either way since the IW figures
out it's characters with bitmaps and the LW uses PostScript chars.
Also, the page sizes are slightly different.

There are, however, a few things you can tell users to make sure
this doesn't happen to them.

1) Use tabs and NEVER USE MULTIPLE HARD SPACES. This is probably
the worst culprit I see consulting Mac word processor users.
These will inevitably be reformatted since in a proportional font,
spaces can be different sizes.

2) Never use hard returns to reformat. If you need to move something
down, use the Paragraph format for "space before" or "space after" or
"keep with next paragraph." Or, if you are really in a bind, use the
Position format if you have Word 4.0. Hard returns screw up everything
if you ever change anything in the document anyway.

3) Use the Page preview command after choosing LW. This way, you can
readjust your margains or re-check to make sure that everything is
still as it should be.

If you follow these, generally you will not even notice changes in
the LW output.

Good Luck,
pr
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