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Subject:Re: Read-me appearance in Word From:"LaBelle, Cassie" <CLaBelle -at- NORRELL -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:28:45 -0500
I agree with Jane; you will have an impossible time controlling the
default printer drivers.
If you want to keep the line breaks at the exact place every time, you
will need to use SHIFT+ENTER (manual line break) at the end of every
line. You won't want to let your text get too close to the right margin
or you may end up with one word wrapping to a line by itself.
When I have been in this situation, I just accepted that there would be
differences and tested the document on as many different
platforms/situations as possible.
Cassie LaBelle
> ----------
> From: Bergen, Jane[SMTP:janeb -at- ANSWERSOFT -dot- COM]
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 1997 9:55 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Read-me appearance in Word
>
> The appearance of your document depends on several factors, not the
> least of which are the underlying template and the (often-overlooked)
> printer driver. Unless you can control both of these on your users'
> machines, you'll never get a true duplication of the original format.
>
> Your only alternative is to convert it to pdf, which seems to me to be
> overkill for a read-me file.
>
> Jane
> Jane Bergen, Technical Writer,
> AnswerSoft, Inc. Richardson, TX
> (972) 997-8355
> janeb -at- answersoft -dot- com
>
> On Friday, November 21, 1997 8:38 AM, Elsa Kapitan-White
> [SMTP:kapitan-white -at- SUGAR-LAND -dot- OILFIELD -dot- SLB -dot- COM] wrote:
> > Hi -- we're doing a read-me file for our latest CD-ROM. The read-me
> is
> in
> > Word (at the company standard version of 6.01 for Macs and 7
> (Windows
> 95)
> > for PCs. However, when we open it on different machines with the
> standard
> > software configuration, the line breaks are different. Is there
> anyway
> to
> > lock in the appearance of the Word document for different machines
> running
> > the same software? Or does any customization by the user override
> our
> > careful formatting?
> >
> > Elsa Kapitan-White <kapitan-white -at- SUGAR-LAND -dot- OILFIELD -dot- SLB -dot- COM>
