What's on screen isn't what's printed

[Guest]

I've posted on this before, and recieved one reply, but now that post is gone!!

Anyway, in PowerPoint 2002, I will have my document set up perfectly. When
I print, sometimes the text will get blown up in size!

I've narrowed this down to a problem with autofit, and I've disabled it.
Now new presentations that I create myself don't have this problem. However,
I still get presentations from other people where this text resizing issue
(only when it's printed, it looks fine onscreen) pops up.

I have Windows 2000, and PowerPoint 2002, and I've had this problem on many
different machines and several printers in my office, and in our satellite
office as well.

The only work around we have is to copy the text, then delete the old text
box, then paste the text again using "paste text only". Since I don't have
autofit turned on, the problem that I think is related to autofit doesn't
happen. It prints as it's supposed to look.

This is a very frustrating problem that we've had for well over a year.
It's embarassing to hand my boss a document that I checked thoroughly on
screen only to find that the print out had blown up the text and made
sentences run off the page!

 

[lost]

maybe you got lucky and just found a workaround, but that wasn't really your
problem
I would update your printer driver
what kind of printer do you have..HP?
have you tried printing to another printer
have you tried printing to a virtual pdf printer such
as the ones at
www.pdf995.com
www.win2pdf.com

lost?

 

[Guest]

I've tried several printers, and the drivers are the latest drivers.

One HP printer, one Xerox are the ones I use the most.