Good point about the printer. However I would be more inclined to think it's the fonts in the OS. I discovered this while exporting PDF from OO. I exported the same OO file to pdf on linux and on windows. The pdf file from linux was always 2-3 times larger than the one on windows. The googling i did led me to believe that Windows just has better fonts than Linux. I tried installing win32 fonts on linux (Ubuntu) but didn't help the OO problem.
ray On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, michael dolan wrote: > 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 >> > > > > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
