Microsoft KB Archive/195926

= Problems Printing Italic Characters on PCL Printers =

Article ID: 195926

Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 1

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This article was previously published under Q195926



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SYMPTOMS
When you print a Web page with a table whose cells contain italic characters to a Printer Control Language (PCL) printer, some characters may be truncated



CAUSE
Some characters (particularly accented characters) may have an overhang adjustment that is larger than the width of the character. When this occurs, an unnecessary break occurs in the printed text because the width is incorrectly calculated as a very large number. For example, the overhang adjustment for "width=30" could be 50, which results in a fill width of -20 (which is supposed to be unsigned). So, instead of -20, the result is a large positive number, which affects almost everything around it.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain and install Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 2. You can obtain Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 2 from the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the products listed above.

Additional query words: HWPRNTS hp hewlett-packard

Keywords: kbprint kbqfe kbprb kbhotfixserver KB195926

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