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JohnSanDiego - 27 Oct 2005 02:07 GMT

I am trying to print a line of text in a rotated text box to go on the spine
of a notebook. The line look fine on the screen, but part of it is cut off
when I try to print it. (It's a rectangular cut into the Capital letter --
not the edge of a line that exceeds the size of the text box).

I suspect the problem is a memory problem, but my printer (a Canon S300) has
no way to increase its memory. I have tried creating a new document with only
the single rotated word in it, and the problem persists. The word prints OK
if it is not rotated.

Any suggestions?

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JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] - 27 Oct 2005 02:37 GMT

Is it real close to the edge of the paper? If so, how close?

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>I am trying to print a line of text in a rotated text box to go on the
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JohnSanDiego - 27 Oct 2005 02:46 GMT

No, it's more or less in the center of the page.

> Is it real close to the edge of the paper? If so, how close?
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JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] - 27 Oct 2005 02:56 GMT

Any chance you'd send it to me so that I could take a look at the file?
Sometimes all you need is another set of eyes.

If so, send it top jl dot paules at gmail dot com.

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JohnSanDiego - 27 Oct 2005 03:11 GMT

Yes, I'll be happy to send it, if I can decipher your e-mail address. Let me
know if it doesn't arrive in some reasonable amount of time.

> Any chance you'd send it to me so that I could take a look at the file?
> Sometimes all you need is another set of eyes.
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JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] - 27 Oct 2005 03:34 GMT

(He must have used his secret decoder ring because I got the email.)

I looked at his file. Looks okay, prints fine. The only issue I saw was that
his text box had an overflow indicator. He had two non-breaking spaces after
the text. I told him to try deleting them but I also said it was a long
shot.

Waiting for a response.

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JohnSanDiego - 27 Oct 2005 05:24 GMT

Thanks for looking at my file. I deleted the extra spaces, but it still
prints the same. However, I have noticed something, I came across a printout
that I had done earlier, and the type printed fine there. What has changed
between now and then was that a couple of days ago, I installed a wireless
print server on my printer. Up to now, everything has seems to work fine with
the new server, but perhaps there is something here that is causing the
problem. This next weekend I have my friend/computer guru help me restore the
printer to a hard wired connection and see if it makes a difference.

The fact that prints OK on another computer, gives me another out, in that I
can take the file into work and print it there. This is not a document I need
to return to again -- I just need one good print.

Thanks for you help with this. If a find a solution, I'll post it here in
case anyone else encounters this problem.

P.S. If I save the file as a .pdf file, it prints fine, except that Adobe
Acrobat reduces the document somewhat, and so far I haven't been able to find
any way to prevent that--but that's another forum.

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Ed Bennett - 27 Oct 2005 12:42 GMT

> P.S. If I save the file as a .pdf file, it prints fine, except that
> Adobe Acrobat reduces the document somewhat, and so far I haven't
> been able to find any way to prevent that--but that's another forum.

Firstly, make sure that the paper size selected in your PDF converter is the
same as the paper size you want to print to.

Then, in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader, in the Print dialog, make sure that
the Zoom options are not set to "Fit to printer margins" or "Reduce to
printer margins"

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JohnSanDiego - 28 Oct 2005 02:03 GMT

Thanks, Ed,

That was exactly the problem -- for some reason the Acrobat Reader Print
Dialog box was set to print my document at 94% of size. When removed the Zoom
Option the document printed correctly, so now I can finish my project. Still
a bit of a mystery of why the document would not print correctly from
Publisher -- and I plan to pursue the possible problem with my wireless
printer setup as I mentioned in my previous post. I'll leave a message here
with the results. Again, thanks to both you and JoAnn for your help with this.

> > P.S. If I save the file as a .pdf file, it prints fine, except that
> > Adobe Acrobat reduces the document somewhat, and so far I haven't
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