How to synch font size, spacing to a page

When printing a chapter, I find problems with pagination. Using Times New Roman, 12 point type, double spaced, I find that the last line of page 3 shows the very tops of the risers of the letters in the first line of page 4, while the top line of page 5 shows the very bottoms of the letters in the last line on page 4.

When using 1.5 line spacing, the top half of the letters in the last line of page 2 show on page 2, while the lower half of the letters appear on the top line of page 3.

With another spacing, this problem doesn’t show up until about page 8.

Any suggestions?

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Hey Web. Welcome to the forum :slight_smile:

Do not compile straight to print.
It is buggy.
Compile to PDF, do a quick checkup, then print the PDF from your web browser (or whatever software you use to view PDFs) using Ctrl-Shift+P. (Not Ctrl+P; test it and you’ll understand why - it makes the page smaller.)

Also make sure you ain’t pushing your printer’s printable area beyond it’s capability. (Aka too little of a margin.)

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I’m having the same issue but with Courier as my font. But since the PDF shows the same thing as the printout, I’m not sure how that helps to fix it.

Your PDF shows incomplete lines of text ? Like this ? :
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Yes. Exactly like that. I keep getting an error message though when I try to embed a screenshot image.

Try different page sizes and margins. PDF compile is sometimes a bit buggy too (for its own reasons.)

That’ll go away after a while. It is only because you are new here. (Spam protection.)

Just to clarify, the thread title asks “how to sync font size, spacing to a page”.
To make it clear, there is “no way” to do it, because that is something we don’t normally ever have to worry about. You pick the font size you want and that’s that.
What we have here is only compile issues.

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