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James3359 The Merovingian
Joined: Jul 05, 2005 Posts: 685 Location: North West England
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:25 am Post subject: Problems transferring documents between OSs (Mac/Windows) |
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I've had a bit of a poke round in the manual, here and on the Wiki but I've not found anything on this subject. I am working with a colleague who is running OO on Windows XP. We frequently produce documents containing graphics. I am aware that font metrics differ between the two OSs so I do not expect text to remain constant between the document opened on Windows and on Mac. I am surprised, however, at the way images seem to jump about the page in an extraordinary manner - appearing in one place when opened on Windows and somewhere else when opened on a Mac.
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pluby The Architect
Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:56 am Post subject: |
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If you Control-click on an image that is having problems and select Anchor in the popup menu that appears, which anchor option is selected?
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James3359 The Merovingian
Joined: Jul 05, 2005 Posts: 685 Location: North West England
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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OK I've had a closer look. Thank you for the pointer.
I think what is happening is principally due to the difference in font metrics between the two OSs. Needless to say, this is not a problem I expect NO to sort out.
What it means is that for each case very careful thought needs to be given to whether to anchor to page or to paragraph - much more so than with a document which is only going to be used on one OS. Also great care needs to be taken in inserting manual page breaks.
I will keep an eye on it to see if that view is substantiated in future, and I will have a discussion with my colleague about the issue and about how to work round it. |
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