On Sat, 2021-10-16 at 23:51 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
I just spent two hours fighting with accursed Libre
Office (LO) getting it to print properly. I basically
had to tell it a bunch of lies about my paper. And
waste a bunch of paper and envelopes
Another thought: Are you giving it the correct data, expecting it to
work properly, or are you trying to force it into printing what you
want by kludging things?
Back when I had an Amiga, I could do absolute printing. If I wanted a
2.4 by 3.7 cm box, 5.5 by 12 cm from the left corner, I could do that.
Later on, printers and/or drivers seemed to think that my absolute
dimensions related to the page should be applied relative to the
printing margins, instead; and content shrunk down relatively, as well.
It was one hell of an annoyance to try and get printouts to be what
they were supposed to be.
It's not far removed from the tomfoolery of video displays with Linux.
If I say put 12 point text on the screen, then put 12 point text on the
screen. It knows the screen size, it knows the pixel count, it should
put 12 point text on the screen, unscaled. It shouldn't make it bigger
or smaller because it wrongly thinks 12 point text isn't an absolute
type size, and wrongly thinks it should scale everything based on what
it thinks about distance someone may be viewing the screen from, or
other wrong thinking.
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