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|    Mr. Man-wai Chang to Paul    |
|    Re: Print preview vs WYSIWYG    |
|    25 Feb 26 02:42:40    |
      XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.freeware       From: toylet.toylet@gmail.com              On 2/25/2026 12:09 AM, Paul wrote:       >       > The view of your DTP software, is virtual in a sense.       > Important details about how it prints can be missing.       >       > Similarly, the Print Preview may not capture all of the things       > wrong with your print settings. Prints in the past (due to printer       > language issues and .ppd info), showed up squashed into a one inch       > square on the paper, and the Print Preview could not capture       > a failure in the print chain.       >       > The views are "illustrative" but not perfect by any means.       > The operator still has to check various settings, margins       > and gutters, scale to fit, to help predict just how       > bad it will look, and whether yet another sheet of       > paper has been wasted.       >       > If all these views worked, you would never waste any paper.       Then WYSIWYG is not practical nor useful. We can keep using Wordperfect       or Wordstar for DOS with Print Preview (with modern printer drivers of       course).              Any Other Business:              We should have never ever needed to tolerate black text on shiny white       background, which is not friendly to eyes. :)              Dark Mode should also have existed decades ago. Well...              --        @~@ Simplicity is Beauty! Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch!        / v \ May the Force and farces be with you! Live long and prosper!!       /( _ )\ https://sites.google.com/site/changmw/        ^ ^ https://github.com/changmw/changmw              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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