Printed Text From BHS (Logos4) Is Garbled?

Hi, all. I'm a brand new user of Logos, and so far I'm blown away. I bought it for my 2nd Yr. Hebrew class, for which I am now trying to prepare for my final exam later this week and I've run into a problem.

Most of our work this semester has been reading from various selections and translating them. The exams and assignments all involve hand-writing our literal and idiomatic translation beneath the printed Hebrew.

I somehow lost one of these assignments and need to redo it, but I'm having problems getting the Hebrew text to print out properly. It looks fine on the screen in Open Office 3.2, but when it prints, approximately half the text is obscured by circles made from little dots. ֠Like the character at the beginning of this sentence, only larger.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? I really need a workable printed copy of Jonah in a hurry!

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Jack Caviness

I know nothing at all about Windows Word Processors, so I can't be of much assistance. Does the application use a different font for printing than for display? Your description of the printout sound as if the font is missing certain Hebrew characters.

I suppose the nature of your assignment precludes you from printing directly from Logos.

Shari

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/201909#Comment_201909

Thanks for your response, Mr. Caviness. The application uses the same font for printing as is displayed. All the characters from the text are printed, but then there is something else being printed over them (circles of dots), almost like an overlay, making the Hebrew almost unreadable. This is for about half of the text; one line will be affected and the next line will be fine.

I would print directly from Logos, but I couldn't find the command to do so, and when I came here to ask, I saw messages stating that there was no printing support in Logos and to use a word processor.

Thanks again for your reply.

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/202049#Comment_202049

Thanks for your response, Mr. Caviness. The application uses the same font for printing as is displayed. All the characters from the text are printed, but then there is something else being printed over them (circles of dots), almost like an overlay, making the Hebrew almost unreadable. This is for about half of the text; one line will be affected and the next line will be fine.

It seems to me that's a problem with OpenOffice. Have to tried exporting from OpenOffice to PDF and then printing from there?

I would print directly from Logos, but I couldn't find the command to do so, and when I came here to ask, I saw messages stating that there was no printing support in Logos and to use a word processor.

The Mac version has no print yet (except partially with the very latest beta), but the Windows version has had print for some time. You choose Print/Export from the resource menu (i.e., with the resource open, click on it's cover in the top left of the panel). There's more info here:

Shari

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/202058#Comment_202058

Success!

Thank you very much for your response, Mr. Barnes. Logos is so unbelievably feature-rich, I might never have found that menu, so thanks very much for pointing it out, and for the links! That worked well, but your additional suggestion to Export to PDF from OpenOffice was excellent, as that means I can choose the line spacing and font size as well. Thank you so very much!

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/202070#Comment_202070

Glad to hear it!