#3.0 problem
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I received Prowrite 3.0 today (thanks), but an having trouble loading
ProWrite 2.5 files. I sometimes get a line spacing of '6' instead of '12',
so the lines overlap. I have a short sample file that demonstrates this
problem. I am sending a letter with screen dumps, and can upload the file
via email or whatever if you like. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks,
Mike.
Mike,
You aren't doing anything wrong, you just are being bitten by the minor
change we made in the ProWrite file format. On lines that were set to a
fixed line height of 6 lpi in ProWrite 2.5 (rather than being "Auto" line
height), they will come in at 3 lpi in ProWrite 3.0. Unfortunately, this
little tid-bit was left out of the addendum.
This change in the file format was necessary to make the "Fixed line
height" feature in ProWrite 3.0 more flexible (without the change, we
wouldn't have been able to support line heights that can be adjusted in one
point (1/72 inch) increments. We felt this additional flexibility was
worthwhile enough to make this slight change to the file format.
The solution to the problem is (as you have found) to use ProWrite 3.0 to
set the line heights for all the affected paragraphs to either "Auto" or
"Fixed" at 6 lpi. Sorry for the inconvenience.
James Bayless
New Horizons Software, Inc.
Thanks for the prompt reply. I have a document that is about 200 pages that
I'll have to correct. Too bad there wasn't a way to tell it that you were
loading a 2.5 file so it could load it correctly. I like the back to front
printing, this is handy for my DeskJet so the paper does not need to be
resorted manually. I noticed that some of the alternate deskjet printer
drivers (like 'betterDJ') sort-of work with the wide fonts. Maybe Commodore
will add support for this to their driver. Mike.