PC to MAC Printing Compatibility Question
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SZEIG89 wrote:
Do you know any way to ensure printing compatibility from PC to MAC and/or
what could be causing this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
One primary culprit is using fonts that exist only on one platform (so
they're substituted for on the other), or when the different platform
fonts don't have the same metrics.
Another culprit has to do with print drivers more than platform - on
either platform, using different print drivers can produce different
output.
A third issue is the users Standard Font. XL's column widths are set in
number of numeric characters in the Standard Font. If users have
different standard fonts (Preferences/General), the default column
widths may well be different.
XL was never designed as a layout application, and the developers who
ported XL from Mac to Windows apparently didn't worry overmuch about
compatibility in output, and the divergence has been in existence ever
since.
If you need it to look pretty, save as PDF. If you need it to work in
XL, use standard fonts (e.g., TNR, Arial) of standard size, and consider
setting Page Setup/Page/Fit to... to get the right number of pages
(though that can have weird effects, too).
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