On the other hand, you’re looking at a window that shows line breaks following certain words, and you might expect to see those breaks in the same spots in the printed version. On the one hand, you’ve set up your document with a certain font size, which you would expect to see when you print it. When you tell TextEdit to print, it’s faced with a quandary: should it print things as it sees them on screen, or should it rely on the chosen font size and margins to determine how things look? TextEdit is really stuck between a rock and a hard place here. This is exactly what TextEdit does in its default mode-as you resize the window, your text will be reflowed such that the lines break near the right edge of the window.Īnd that’s what causes the problem. Make your editing window wider, and your lines will get longer narrow the window, and the lines will get shorter. Most text editors, including TextEdit, wrap long lines at the right edge of the editing window.
When you write in a text editor, however, things are different. In Word, and most other “real” word processors, regardless of how wide or narrow you make your editing window, your lines will continue to wrap at the exact same point-and that point is dictated by the printed page’s margin settings, not the width of the onscreen window. The distinction may seem a fine one, but I think it’s relevant here. The first thing to realize is that TextEdit is not Microsoft Word, nor any other pure word processor. (If you just want the fix without the explanation, skip down to Machine?” (Nevermind for now that nothing is truly WYSIWYG that’s a topic for another day.) Well, the answer is that your Mac is trying to give you WYSIWYG, and that’s the cause of the problem. You might be thinking, “I thought the Mac was supposed to be a Printing from TextEdit sometimes seems like a black art-often the font size of your printed document will be much smaller than the font size used in the onscreen original.
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