Each line condenses to one character - can't budge them

[Daisy Tarran]

After successfully preparing a document - It then condensed itself to one
character per line - Each letter of the line seemed to be superimposed on
each other - I am unable to stretch out line to be readable - I then opened
up previously successfully saved document only to find it appeared the same.
IE each line condensed to one character space

 

[Echo S]

After successfully preparing a document - It then condensed itself to one
character per line - Each letter of the line seemed to be superimposed on
each other - I am unable to stretch out line to be readable - I then opened
up previously successfully saved document only to find it appeared the same.
IE each line condensed to one character space

Which application is this in? And what font is causing the problem?

I've seen it happen in PPT, and usually reapplying the slide template takes
care of it.

Other things to try are lowering hardware acceleration and updating video
drivers.

How to set graphics hardware acceleration back
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00129.htm

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Daisy,

If this is in Word 2003 the 'print scrunching' buglet
can appear at some random moments If that's what
Echo is seeing in Powerpoint as well that's the first
time I've seen it listed outside of a Word issue.

It's apparently a glitch that causes
Word 2003 to lose track of the printer it's supposed to be
using (as listed in File=>Print).

Going to File=>Print and
changing the printer to another one (and back to the
one you want to use again)
will often clear it temporarily.

If that works please let us know what happens if you
1. Set Word to use the correct printer
2. Close Word.
3. Cleanup and delete all left over
Word temp files using Start=>Search and the
search string of
~$*.*;*.tmp

4. Restart Word and open the same document you were
working on.

Do you have the MS Remove Hidden(personal) Data [RHD]
add-in installed or another Add-in in Word?

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After successfully preparing a document - It then condensed itself to one
character per line - Each letter of the line seemed to be superimposed on
each other - I am unable to stretch out line to be readable - I then opened
up previously successfully saved document only to find it appeared the same.
IE each line condensed to one character space >>

 

[Echo S]

Hi Daisy,

If this is in Word 2003 the 'print scrunching' buglet
can appear at some random moments If that's what
Echo is seeing in Powerpoint as well that's the first
time I've seen it listed outside of a Word issue.

It's apparently a glitch that causes
Word 2003 to lose track of the printer it's supposed to be
using (as listed in File=>Print).

Interesting. Didn't know Word had this "feature." <g> I've only ever seen it
in PPT, and even then only two or three times.

ISTR Gil Sans was the culprit font once, and, mmmm, maybe Myriad or Frutiger
another. I *think* at least two of those three were postscript fonts also.
So maybe it was related to postscript printer drivers in those cases.