Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer document appears differently on two differen PC's

On 2011-03-29 14:39, Michel Gagnon wrote:
> Le 2011-03-28 15:03, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions a écrit :
> > On 03/28/2011 02:41 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > > I had this same thing. The document font was arial on both machines.
> > > But I found the arial fonts were not the same. I copied the arial
> > > font from the first machine to the second machine (deleting and
> > > replacing the font) and the layout was then the same.
> > >
> > > steve
> > <snip>
> >
> > I never heard of that issue. Maybe the TTF vs. OTF fonts would make a
> > difference, but I use TTF for all my fonts if I have it in that
> > format. I do make sure that any of my systems have the same list of
> > fonts installed.
>
> It is indeed an issue. On my XP, I have Arial v.3.0, whereas on my
> Windows 7, I have Arial 5.06. From what I see, they are identical,
> except v.5 has better kerning pairs with accented letters ("Téléphone"
> doesn't look as bad) and more special letters. But other less basic
> fonts have been fine-tuned over the years, with sometimes unexpected
> results.
> Also a bug was corrected between OOo 3.2 and LO 3.3: previously, line
> spacing at less than 100% was not rendered correctly. So I gained 1-2
> lines per page on many documents.
I gained 1-2 lines per page between Arial on my mac and Arial on my
Suse. Really mucked up a 40 page manual with copious diagrams.

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