XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.freeware   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-24 19:42, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:   
   > 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).   
      
   WYSIWYG is an approximation, it is an style of doing an application,   
   different from what it was done in Wordperfect times, where font colours   
   could be used instead of the actual font.   
      
   It never meant that what you got on the screen was the exact same thing   
   as in paper, but aproximate enough.   
      
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
   ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;   
      
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