Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?
Anne: You raise a good point. Back when I lived in Dilbert's world, I learned that even moving documents from one installation of MS Office to another -- even within the same version -- is not as simple as the MS advertisements might lead you to believe. We would get templates from A Higher Level that required some fudging so that they would print in the proscribed format. The usual culprit was that the originator had either diddled his printer settings, or was using a printer that had capabilities that were not available to us. It was worse, of course, when the template was created using a newer version of Word/Excel/Whatever than we had, since going from new --> old --> new is never bullet proof. Yip that's right, I have had big differences between word 97-2000-xp. not worth the bytes its written on.;-) cheers Anton -=-=- ... "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?
On Thursday 18 March 2004 08:23 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 18 March 2004 13:15, Frank Bax wrote: > > I have this problem with OOo 1.1 docs going from one Win98 system > > to another - page breaks are not in the same place. In our case > > the original creator of doc had document fit on one page, on other > > machines, the might be a blank second page, or one or two lines of > > text on second page. > > I don't think it is confined to OOo - in fact I do wonder if it also > happens with M$Office? I have just had such a problem with Lotus > WordPro files, long documents that need line numbering. At first I > thought that it was because my copy runs under Win4Lin, but putting > the files on another native Win98 machine had the same problem. > Although the margins and fonts were set identically there was a small > problem of line length which made the occasional line spill over. It > cost many hours of work, and I'm not satisfied that the results are > safe. > > Which brings me to the question - just what could it be that changes? > If it's really not the fault of OOo as such, what is it? Is font > rendering different on different machines? It would certainly be > useful to understand the cause of the problem. > > Anne Anne: You raise a good point. Back when I lived in Dilbert's world, I learned that even moving documents from one installation of MS Office to another -- even within the same version -- is not as simple as the MS advertisements might lead you to believe. We would get templates from A Higher Level that required some fudging so that they would print in the proscribed format. The usual culprit was that the originator had either diddled his printer settings, or was using a printer that had capabilities that were not available to us. It was worse, of course, when the template was created using a newer version of Word/Excel/Whatever than we had, since going from new --> old --> new is never bullet proof. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:23:44 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 18 March 2004 13:15, Frank Bax wrote: > > > > I have this problem with OOo 1.1 docs going from one Win98 > > system to another - page breaks are not in the same place. In > > our case the original creator of doc had document fit on one > > page, on other machines, the might be a blank second page, or > > one or two lines of text on second page. > > I don't think it is confined to OOo - in fact I do wonder if it > also happens with M$Office? I have just had such a problem with > Lotus WordPro files, long documents that need line numbering. At > first I thought that it was because my copy runs under Win4Lin, > but putting the files on another native Win98 machine had the same > problem. Although the margins and fonts were set identically > there was a small problem of line length which made the occasional > line spill over. It cost many hours of work, and I'm not > satisfied that the results are safe. > > Which brings me to the question - just what could it be that > changes? If it's really not the fault of OOo as such, what is it? > Is font > rendering different on different machines? It would certainly be > useful to understand the cause of the problem. > > Anne > - -- > Registered Linux User No.293302 > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAWaLgkFAvMr/nNX8RAjgUAJsERz7ft7ir9O8JYeQALyBBWPCrBACglMzs > GuyS9/cB9AGkzNobyUCAVak= > =RJw7 > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > Docs leaving the office are no problem for us because we have to .pdf them anyway, but any intraoffice exchange is a big pain. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 March 2004 13:15, Frank Bax wrote: > > I have this problem with OOo 1.1 docs going from one Win98 system > to another - page breaks are not in the same place. In our case > the original creator of doc had document fit on one page, on other > machines, the might be a blank second page, or one or two lines of > text on second page. I don't think it is confined to OOo - in fact I do wonder if it also happens with M$Office? I have just had such a problem with Lotus WordPro files, long documents that need line numbering. At first I thought that it was because my copy runs under Win4Lin, but putting the files on another native Win98 machine had the same problem. Although the margins and fonts were set identically there was a small problem of line length which made the occasional line spill over. It cost many hours of work, and I'm not satisfied that the results are safe. Which brings me to the question - just what could it be that changes? If it's really not the fault of OOo as such, what is it? Is font rendering different on different machines? It would certainly be useful to understand the cause of the problem. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAWaLgkFAvMr/nNX8RAjgUAJsERz7ft7ir9O8JYeQALyBBWPCrBACglMzs GuyS9/cB9AGkzNobyUCAVak= =RJw7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?
At 08:45 AM 3/16/04, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:39:47 + Olivier Esser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Please excuse me!. I am subscribed to both French and English > list and I have use the wrong address! > > My problem was that a same word document does not open exactly in > the same way under openoffice 1.1 under linux and windows. This > concerns essentialy the page breaks. > > > > > Bonjour, > > > > J'ai remarqué qu'un même document n'a pas exactement la même > > mise en > > [...] > > > > You're right. I pointed it out to the oo list and never got a response. This was at least two versions ago. Also it doesn't export the exact same .pdf in win and Linux. I had to dual boot to get docs from my staff the way they were written or look forward to miles of editing. Super PITA. Lee I have this problem with OOo 1.1 docs going from one Win98 system to another - page breaks are not in the same place. In our case the original creator of doc had document fit on one page, on other machines, the might be a blank second page, or one or two lines of text on second page. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?
Bob Read asked: Could it be that you are not using identical fonts in Win and Linux? Olivier Esser wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Please excuse me!. I am subscribed to both French and English list and > I have use the wrong address! > > My problem was that a same word document does not open exactly in the > same way under openoffice 1.1 under linux and windows. This concerns > essentialy the page breaks. How about differences in the printer driver? I know that WordPerfect (way back when) was touchy about even the slightest difference in printer driver. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?
Could it be that you are not using identical fonts in Win and Linux? Olivier Esser wrote: Hello everybody, Please excuse me!. I am subscribed to both French and English list and I have use the wrong address! My problem was that a same word document does not open exactly in the same way under openoffice 1.1 under linux and windows. This concerns essentialy the page breaks. -- -- Bob Read // Registered Linux user #287118 http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/bestill.htm Soli Deo Gloria-Solus Christus-Sola Gratia-Sola Fide-Sola Scriptura The Church of The Master [Baptist] Providence, Rhode Island http://users.ids.net/~bobread/cotm.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:39:47 + Olivier Esser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Please excuse me!. I am subscribed to both French and English > list and I have use the wrong address! > > My problem was that a same word document does not open exactly in > the same way under openoffice 1.1 under linux and windows. This > concerns essentialy the page breaks. > > > > > Bonjour, > > > > J'ai remarqué qu'un même document n'a pas exactement la même > > mise en > > [...] > > > > You're right. I pointed it out to the oo list and never got a response. This was at least two versions ago. Also it doesn't export the exact same .pdf in win and Linux. I had to dual boot to get docs from my staff the way they were written or look forward to miles of editing. Super PITA. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?
Hello everybody, Please excuse me!. I am subscribed to both French and English list and I have use the wrong address! My problem was that a same word document does not open exactly in the same way under openoffice 1.1 under linux and windows. This concerns essentialy the page breaks. Bonjour, J'ai remarqué qu'un même document n'a pas exactement la même mise en [...] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
