[DerbyDad03]

On Jan 2, 12:49*am, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
The printer _driver_ is necessarily different on the two platforms.

Instead of using Line Spacing "single" (or whatever), use "exactly"
some value. That might even ensure that the same amount of space is
occupied in both situations and you won't have to scale it at all.

On Jan 1, 10:09*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:



On Jan 1, 6:13*pm, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

Different printer driver.

On Jan 1, 4:35*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:

I am working on a document in Word 2010 for Windows that will be sent
to a user running Word 2011 on a Mac.

The document just fits on 1 page on my Windows machine(s), but when I
email it to the 2011 user and then open it on the Mac, it places the
last two lines of the document on the second page.

If I scale it to 96% in Page Setup it fits on one page.

I've checked the margins, the font and font sizes and everything
matches. I even checked that the Mac's default printer is the same
printer as my Windows machine.

Is this a known issue with 2010 vs. 2011 or is there some setting I
need to change on the Windows side so that the document will look the
same on both systems?

Thanks, and Happy New Year!

That was my guess also, although the Mac is set up to print to the
same default my printer as my PC is - the USB printer attached to my
PC which the Mac prints to over the wireless network.

Does that mean that there is no way to know whether a document will
print on one page when sent to another Word user?

In this case, the document is a resume and we are trying to get it to
be one page long regardless of who we send it to. A resume loses a lot
of impact if the last 1 or 2 lines ends up on a second page. The
recipient will probably not know that it is a printer driver issue.
They will most likely think that the applicant set it up that way,
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Thanks...please don't take any of the following as an argument, I'm
simply pointing out what further testing has revealed. I do plan to
try your line spacing suggestion when I get home tonight and have
access to both the PC and the Mac. I'll post back once I've tried
that.

That said...

I know that the drivers are different on the 2 systems, but I assumed
that the drivers would know the physical properties of the printer
(white space required at the top of the sheet for the paper to feed,
lower limit of printable space at the bottom of the sheet, etc.) and
format the output to fit.

So, to see what would happen with some others drivers, I ran some more
tests.

This morning I have access to a PC that can be run under both a
resident XP OS and cloud based Windows 7. From this PC I can print to
a networked HP laser as well as a Brother laser printer attached to
the parallel port of the system. Both printers are accessible from
either OS environment. Obviously these printers, along with the
different OS's, would be using different drivers than my home XP
system with an HP inkjet and also different drivers than the Mac.

In all 4 cases, (2 different OS environments and 2 different printers)
the full-scale 1 page document printed on 1 page.

Again, this is not an argument against the Mac printer driver being
the root cause of the issue, I am simply pointing out that 5 different
PC based drivers have no problem fitting the document to one page.
Only the Mac, with it's different driver and different version of Word
prints the document on 2 pages.

As I said, I will play with the line spacing this evening and report
back with the results.