Berna Massingill wrote:
Recently I was working on an OpenOffice Writer document with
a colleague. For him, the document appeared to have five pages;
for me, it appeared to have eight. He uses Windows; I use Linux.
I'm clueless about where to start looking for differences -- printer
drivers?? installed fonts?? something else?? -- but I suspect
something wrong about the Linux installation, because I've noticed
that I seem to have a similar problem with MS Word documents, except
with them it manifests itself as each page of the Word document
being printed as two pages, the second containing only a few lines.
Help appreciated ....
I would be very suspicious of having different fonts on the 2 computers.
When I set up a Linux system that has OOo on it here at work, I install
all English fonts I can get my hands on ... legally of course. There are
also some fonts that you can get your hands on, but the legality is
questionable. For example, there may be some commercial fonts that have
been installed on your Windows system that you could argue that you have
the right to use under Linux. I couldn't find an 'arial narrow' font
anywhere, so I borrowed one from my Windows 2000 partition on the same
PC - it makes a big difference to the way documents with arial narrow
text is spaced out.
Chuck the fonts somewhere ( /usr/share/fonts on my system ), run
mkfontdir on the directory, and then add the directory to your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file, with the rest of the font directories, and
restart X. *However*, keep in mind that doing this with *some* fonts has
caused OOo to crash when opening files with those fonts. I'm not sure if
it's something I did wrong, or if there was something up with the fonts,
but if OOo starts crashing when opening documents, comment out the
line(s) added to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, restart X, and try again.
Dan
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