Re: Open Office 1.0.2 formats differently on different OSes
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 21:34, Gianfranco Berardi wrote:
>
> I have a two page document that I created on my Debian GNU/Linux system,
> and at the top of each page I have the words "Truman County." These are
> in the document body and are not headers (nor do I want them to be).
> At the bottom of the first page, I have a table.
>
> When I sent the document to my roommate, who is running Windows 2000, he
> opened it in Open Office and there were formatting problem:
>
> It was now three pages, and the table on the first page now spanned to
> the second page. Naturally the "Truman County" was not at the very top
> of the document anymore.
> This pushed the bottom of the second document onto a third page.
>
> I asked a friend of mine who dual boots between Windows and Debian as
> well, and he found the same problems.
>
> Then just to be sure it wasn't Debian, I asked my friend who runs
> Gentoo, and he saw that Open Office rendered it just fine. He didn't
> have Windows to test it on, but the point is that it probably is not
> just the Debian package that is causing the problem.
>
> Has anyone else had problems where Open Office for Windows and Open
> Office for Linux render the same file differently? Is it a font
> installation problem, or some settings in Open Office? I tried to look
> up what I could, but msttcorefonts was the only information I found
> about it.
Is this font issues?
What fonts do you have installed? Are they the ones in the document?
Do you run in the same locales and have the same page sizes defined?
Regards,
Andrew
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