Spaces print spradically that aren't in slide

[jbostel]

I have several presentations that look fine on the screen and when you print
them, spaces appear in various places between letters where there is no
space. Is this a bug or is there a way to fix this. It never happened until
I got the 2003 version.
Any ideas for how to get rid of this problem

 

[ACK]

just an idea, which may be way off but have you checked your justification?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

If I had to guess, which of course I do, I would say that there is an issue
with your printer driver.

1) Are you printing over a network, or from a printer connected directly to
your computer?
2) Have you updated the printer driver from the manufacturers website
lately?
3) Is background printing turned on? Turn it off under Tools=>Options.
4) If this only happens on one font, it may be a corrupted font file.


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[jbostel]

It's a network printer and multiple people in different locations with
different pritners have this problem. Have updated drivers and done
everything I can thing of to the pritner. Will check the font thing..hadn't
thought of that but I'm not optimistic that's going to fix it since it's
inconsistent...one line it's the second character another line it's the
8th...and it's not consistent with letters either

 

[jbostel]

Justification would show up on the screen if it was wrong and it doesn't do
it on every slide...it's quite odd...

 

[Echo S]

We have the same problem at my office, jbostel. I don't know how to fix it.

It seems worse when you use Send to Word than it does when just printing PPT
handouts. And some fonts seem worse than others.

Just wanted you to know you're not dreaming. Only workaround I can offer is
to keep a copy of PPT 2000 around for printing.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Side vignette ---
Echo, does it still do this when you use SlideIntoWord?


J.
I understand that you are printing these as whole slides (1 per page), am I
correct? What happens when you check/uncheck the 'Print TrueType Fonts as
graphics' box in the Tools => Options => Print dialog box?


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We have the same problem at my office, jbostel. I don't know how to fix
it.

It seems worse when you use Send to Word than it does when just printing
PPT
handouts. And some fonts seem worse than others.

Just wanted you to know you're not dreaming. Only workaround I can offer
is
to keep a copy of PPT 2000 around for printing.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

It's a network printer and multiple people in different locations with
different pritners have this problem. Have updated drivers and done
everything I can thing of to the pritner. Will check the font thing..hadn't
thought of that but I'm not optimistic that's going to fix it since it's
inconsistent...one line it's the second character another line it's the
8th...and it's not consistent with letters either

 

[Echo S]

Side vignette ---
Echo, does it still do this when you use SlideIntoWord?

Good question, Bill, and I'm not sure.

I'll see if I can get someone there to test it.

 

[American Girl]

I am having a similar problem with 2000. I think it has something to do with
tabs or indents. The lines of text affected have both on them. Example, I
have a numbered question on the first line, with the number on a hanging
indent. The next line has a different indent for a numbered answer, with a
tab. The question gets weird spaces thrown in - it seems to ignore the
hanging indent, print 5 or so characters, then tab over the width of the tab
that appears on the subsequent line.

Does this sound like what you're experiencing?