Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Posted Jun 6, 2023 11:59 UTC (Tue) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497)
In reply to: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice by pizza
Parent article: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

> I remember when selecting a different *printer* on the same PC caused formatting to shift slightly. For the same (ie US Letter) paper sizes.

I wonder if it's because the page margins were too small for some of the printers and got automatically adjusted for that particular print job, causing a reflow of the layout?

Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Posted Jun 6, 2023 13:26 UTC (Tue) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (1 responses)

In both cases the it was the same paper size, and the document margins were well within the printers' minimum margins.

And that this didn't happen using WordPerfect, only Word.

(Incidentally, it's been said that one of the main motivators for Windows was to make WordPerfect's compatibility with vast numbers of printers irrelevant..)

Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Posted Jun 6, 2023 15:32 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

> And that this didn't happen using WordPerfect, only Word.

> (Incidentally, it's been said that one of the main motivators for Windows was to make WordPerfect's compatibility with vast numbers of printers irrelevant..)

As someone who ended up writing my then company's WP printer drivers, I can assure you this didn't come "out of the box". But the thing is, not only was it possible, but it wasn't that difficult.

Trying to fix printer issues today, on the other hand ...

Cheers,
Wol