This is a complete guess, but it might have more to do with the printer driver than the OS. You use CUPS? What kind of printer do you have? Something like a laser office printer that might have memory/ fonts already installed, or a little deskjet/inkjet? The first would get sent postscript data, which might be different depending on the driver, while the second probably gets sent something more like a raster image - more like a bitmap that would probably not change given a different driver. MD.
On 1/12/07, Joe Fruchey <ignavia at gmail.com> wrote: > > My wife teaches high school English. I make her vocabulary tests for her. > > At first, I used Word, only because that's what she uses. > > Then I started using OOo/Win32 when I discovered that CTRL-Up/Down > re-orders lists (NICE for matching tests). > > Last night, I opened up one of the ODT files on my laptop (Ubuntu), > changed it, and printed it, and the page that came out of the printer > was very different from the ones that were printed under Windows. The > font was Palatino Linotype, which I have installed on my laptop. The > main differences were in the bold text, so I thought that maybe I > didn't have Palatino Bold installed, so it was using a faux bold, but > then I noticed that there were subtle differences in the normal-weight > text as well. > > Same document, same program, same printer... only difference is the > OS. What gives? > > Thanks, > > Joe > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- Michael Dolan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070112/0d6c2f4c/attachment.html
