Abiword can't print long RTF file (solved)

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Thursday 11 November 2010 11:14:10 pm Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> I've been writing a program that produces RTF files. The program runs on
> MacOS and on Linux (it's written in REALbasic).
>
> On MacOS, the RTF files are opened and printed by TextEdit with no problem.
>
> On Ubuntu, documents that are only one page display and print well.
> Documents that are several page long display OK but when it comes to
> printing I get crazy results (some letters and numbers print across the
> page. The layout seems to be preserved but it's as if only the first
> character of every sentence is printed. This shows on the print preview
> though...).
>
> Anyone also encountered this behaviour and maybe knows a workaround?
>
> Thierry

Answering myself, just because I think it might be useful to someone else.

While it does not explain why only some versions show this, I found out the 
problem came from the RTF code, not from Abiword.

The font header came from TextEdit and refered to MacOS fonts:
{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;}

This was displayed correctly but print preview and printing freaked out.

This new version, taken directly from Abiword's own formatting, works with 
both Abiword _and_ textEdit:
{\fonttbl\f0\fttruetype Arial;}

Thierry




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