Dragan Cvetkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gianfranco Berardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Basic problem: The formatting of the page is different in Open Office for >> Windows than from Open Office for Linux. > > It's probably the same behaviour as it is in MS Word: your formating > depends on a lot of factors such as default printer, fonts installed, paper > size configured etc etc. Check yours and friend's configuration.
As OOo does not save the exact formatting (i.e. line breaks and such) but only the actual text and formatting instructions (such as paragraph breaks etc.) it is quite normal that the resulting layout is not exactly the same on systems using e.g. different fonts. Although this may be unpleasant in some cases I think this cannot really be solved and is most certainly not a bug. The situation with M$ Word is far worse (and I don't think this happens with OOo) because formatting depends partly on the printer installed. This behaviour is truly annoying (and unpredictable) and could therefore be considered to be buggy. The only way around the problem with OOo is to make sure you have exactly the same font with the exact same metrics on all your systems. If you then still have problems you may have found a bug and should talk to the OOo people about it. Earlier StarOffice versions sometimes had problems with non-ascii characters not being mapped correctly between different charsets but I would suppose that the current OOo file format takes care of that. > If you want the same formating everywhere, use TeX :-) You would get the exact same problems with TeX or LaTeX if your fonts had different metrics on different systems. The reason this does not happen is that LaTeX usually uses fonts provided with the LaTeX- distribution which are the same everywhere. To really solve the problem (at least for printing) you need to use a file format that is not centered around the document structure (as are LaTeX and the OOo format) but is layout oriented like Postscript or PDF with embedded fonts. Ciao, Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
