On Fri August 11 2006 07:36, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
>
> I have a large number of SO7 sxw files that are templates for a command
> line, mail merge operation (I manually unzip the sxw file, do global
> replacements, rezip the file and send the result to the printer).
>
> I want to move the setup from SO7 to OOo1.1 (the OOo2 rpm is not
> available for the PPC) but the files look/print differently in the two
> systems eg when I do the following in SO7:
>
> - Open a new A4 doc
> - Set all margins to 2cm
> - Insert a table, using Courier 12 pt, and increase the number of rows
> to fill the page (in this case 39 rows)
> - Save the doc, open it in OOo1.1 (or OOo2 on another machine) and I
> find the table only fits 37 lines on the page with the table overflowing
> to the next page . .
>
> It appears that the padding above and below the the 12 pt font of the
> cell texts is different in the two environments? - if I force the the
> OOo1.1 row heights back to 0.65 it is almost back to how it looked in
> SO7. Is there some checkbox or something in OO1.1/OO2 that will allow
> the file to look exactly like it did in SO7?
Hi Phil,
Are you sure that the exact same fonts are being used for both documents ?
StarOffice normally came with more fonts.
Also, I think that there is almost certainly PPC RPMs available.
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