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Block Print Horizontal and Vertical Positioni
DocumentID: 650681
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:01 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Solutions: Problem:
In WordPerfect 4.2, a block print would hold the horizontal position on the page, and print at the top margin. In WP 5.1 and WP 5.0, the vertical position is held, but everything prints out starting at the left margin. The customer would like it to print like it did in WP 4.2. What is the reasoning behind the change?

Answer from Development:
The horizontal position for a block print will be correct as far as margins, tabs, columns, etc. are concerned. But, if the block begins in the middle of a line of text, then WP prints the blocked part of the line as if it were the whole line of text. This is because the print formatter only sends WP the part of the line that is blocked. If it were to send the whole line, then WP would print the whole line.

Because the print scanner only knows what text it sees (it doesn't know what might be missing), it places the text at the left position for the line. It was changed because the entire printing code was rewritten for WP 5.0, so the mechanism that allowed the horizontal position to print correctly in WP 4.2 simply does not exist in 5.x. It would take additional code to handle the horizontal position in 5.x like WP did in 4.2, and Development doesn't feel it is a high enough priority. WP 4.2 didn't do the vertical position correctly, so block prints have never positioned perfectly.

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