Hi,
Does the document look right on the screen and is it the same printer please?
How did you add the printer and what model is it please? From the distro's database? Have you made sure the paper size and margins are the same on both Windows and Linux? Have you gone looking for a proper PPD file for the printer (hopefully from the vendor) and deleted the printer and readded it using the PPD?
I ask these because our Xerox printers at work definitely perform differently with the Xerox PPD file than they do with the printer definition built into Ubuntu.
Cheers,
Paul.
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From: Peter Salisbury <peterthevicar@???>
Sender: hampshire-bounces@???
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:03:28
To: <lug@???>; Hampshire LUG Discussion List<hampshire@???>
Reply-To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List <hampshire@???>
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] OpenOffice & MS fonts...
Hi Vic,
I really wonder if this is a compatibility issue with the printer
rather than the font. If the metrics for the font are slightly off in
the printer and Word is using the printer metrics but OOo is using the
font file's metrics that could account for the problem. To see if
that's it you can try toggling the 'use printer metrics for document
formatting' setting in Tools / Options / Writer / Compatibility and
see what happens.
HTH, Peter
On 19 October 2010 00:54, Vic <lug@???> wrote:
>
>> Vic, I've just installed msttcorefonts in Fedora 13 (chkfontpath is also
>> needed but no longer in the repo as xfs is no longer used).
>
> That's exactly the setup I've got.
>
>> Can you send me an example?
>
> Perhaps. I've got one document - but it's got confidential info in it, so
> I can't send you that. I can replace it with dummy data - that should be
> good enough (but, or course, I can't prove it'll print properly on
> MS-Office once I've done that). Additionally, I don't know if I can save
> in .xlsx (I've never tried it!)
>
>> I take you mean they cannot open and print the document because it is
>> nolonger formated correctly to print on the whole page.
>
> Yes. The invoice I've got suddenly becomes two pages, with just one column
> on the second page. It's not usable like that...
>
> Vic.
>
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