Hello,
I have an odd document spacing issue. I have a document that when I open on my windows XP machine is 476 pages and when I open the same document (via mounted network drive) on my windows 7 pro machine it is 524 (both running Openoffice 4.1.1). While it claims to be single spaced on both machines there is clearly a line spacing issue (I have confirmed the lines all end on the same word so it has to be an interline thing, I seem to be losing ~3 line a page in a 6x9 format 11 point font). All the setting claim to be the same (page size, spacing, margins, spacing above and below the paragraph etc.) and I am opening the same .odt file. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? Could it be an OS thing or a 32 verse 64 bit PC thing or is the document potentially going to be different on every machine?
Thanks,
Luke
[Solved] Document spacing varies between PC
[Solved] Document spacing varies between PC
Last edited by Hagar Delest on Sat Apr 06, 2019 9:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: tagged solved
Reason: tagged solved
OpenOffice 4.1.1 on Windows XP
Re: Document spacing varies between PC
The cause is most likely that different fonts are used on the two computers.LME7132 wrote:I have an odd document spacing issue. I have a document that when I open on my windows XP machine is 476 pages and when I open the same document (via mounted network drive) on my windows 7 pro machine it is 524 (both running Openoffice 4.1.1). While it claims to be single spaced on both machines there is clearly a line spacing issue (I have confirmed the lines all end on the same word so it has to be an interline thing, I seem to be losing ~3 line a page in a 6x9 format 11 point font). All the setting claim to be the same (page size, spacing, margins, spacing above and below the paragraph etc.) and I am opening the same .odt file. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? Could it be an OS thing or a 32 verse 64 bit PC thing or is the document potentially going to be different on every machine?
- The document will have a font assigned to all textual content. This is the font which the document requests to be used for that particular text. If the computer does not have that font installed, the software will try to find a "best match" among available fonts. When a replacement ocurs, the font selector will still display the desired (requested) font name, not the name of the replacement.
- Point size is not an exact measure for computer fonts. Lead types for traditional typesetting required different spacing to look their best, depending on which font you used. This spacing was added by inserting strips of lead - hence "leading". Our digital "types" also have different "recommended leading" depending on font, which makes line spacing differ even when you use the same point size.
If font substitution is indeed the cause, there are two obvious ways to fix it:
- Change the fonts used in the document. Use fonts which are available on both computers.
- Make sure all required fonts are installed on both computers. Install fonts which are missing.
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Re: Document spacing varies between PC
So there is no indication (other than appearance) that the font has been changed? I thought I was using one of the default fonts of OpenOffice, I don't recall installing any. Thanks for the information, I will look into that.
OpenOffice 4.1.1 on Windows XP
Re: Document spacing varies between PC
The TestFonts extension (at the OO Extensions repository) will quickly tell what fonts are requested/substituted/available.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 on Xubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Re: Document spacing varies between PC
Thanks, that was my issue. "Book antiqua" was an included font in Xp and was replaced in windows 7 with something that looks nearly identical. Installing the font fixed my problem.
OpenOffice 4.1.1 on Windows XP