Compatibility Word vs Writer

I was collaborating with a man who lives in Naples, Italy to write a 
dictionary.  Each page was in two columns and each page had a heading at 
the top of the page with the left side having the first word in the left 
column and right side having the last word in the right column, 
something very usual to dictionaries.  Well, headers didn't work so he 
used frames which seemed to work OK when I opened them in OOo.  The 
final result was that Word and Writer did not render the same file 
exactly the same.  With exactly the same page format, there were always 
a very large percentage of the pages that were rendered with a different 
number of lines in Word than in Writer.  This caused the frames to be 
wrong and also the anchors were not in the same place so many of the 
frames were just lost or displaced far from their original position.

If I'm not mistaken, both MSO and OOo use the fonts available on the 
system, so they would have both been using the exact same fonts and with 
the same page dimensions, so why did they not generate the same number 
of lines per page?

It took me a long time to realize what was happening and why these 
headings were moving.  My friend was dead set against using Open Office. 
  He thought it made more sense for me to pay big $$$ for the MS product 
than for him to download OOo for free.

-- 
Dale Erwin
Lurigancho, Lima 15 PERU

http://leather.casaerwin.org




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