On Wed August 16 2006 02:44, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> CPHennessy,
>
> > On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 22:40 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> This seems to indicate that the fonts are the same:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# cksum `locate Courier | grep psprint | sort`
> 561573252 15501 /home/staroffice7/share/psprint/fontmetric/Courier-Bold.afm
> 1279312207 15590
> /home/staroffice7/share/psprint/fontmetric/Courier-BoldOblique.afm
> 3092789175 15646
> /home/staroffice7/share/psprint/fontmetric/Courier-Oblique.afm 3574148326
> 15542 /home/staroffice7/share/psprint/fontmetric/Courier.afm 561573252
> 15501 /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/share/psprint/fontmetric/Courier-Bold.afm 1279312207
> 15590 /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/share/psprint/fontmetric/Courier-BoldOblique.afm
> 3092789175 15646
> /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/share/psprint/fontmetric/Courier-Oblique.afm 3574148326
> 15542 /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/share/psprint/fontmetric/Courier.afm
>
> This seems normal:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# locate fonts | grep starof
> /home/staroffice7/share/fonts/truetype/cumbic.ttf
> /home/staroffice7/share/fonts/truetype/ariblk.ttf
> etc
>
> However, this is odd?:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# locate fonts | grep openof
> /usr/share/fonts/openoffice
> /usr/share/fonts/openoffice/opens___.ttf
> /usr/share/fonts/openoffice/fonts.cache-1
>
> and that's all . .
>
> > > Also, I think that there is almost certainly PPC RPMs available.
>
> There are but only 1.1, but it is the same problem with 2.0 on another
> machine anyway.
Hi Phil,
There are also compatibility options to improve MSOffice compatibility.
perhaps some of there are having an effect on your document.
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