Simple Printing Problem...I hope

[Jim Strickland]

Our company has a mixture of Macs and Windows XP machines. I have several layouts with headers set top print at the top of each printed page. If my layout is sized to be printed in two pages, the Mac prints exactly two pages. However, the Windows XP machines print an extra page at the end with the header on it. Why?

[stanley]

Jim:

Windows machines render fonts a bit differently from Macs, resulting in slightly different page lengths (and, thus, sometimes an extra page, or a page less.) The solution I use is to have separate print layouts for different platforms, find what platform is printing via Get(SystemPlatform), and print to the layout for that platform.

-Stanley

[DykstrL]

On the Windows side, something is sliding that is extending enough to print the third page. As Stanley stated, it is probably a font difference that is causing that.

One way to reduce this is to set the fixed margins for the print layout to .5 inches or more on all sides of the layout. It will get the printers to look at it a little closer. I would also recommend setting up the layout on a Windows machine because the Mac is a lot more forgiving in font differences, plus if the fonts you are using are larger on the Windows side, when you print on the Mac side, the font(s) will be a little smaller.

[mattlight]

well said, if you fix the problem on the windows machine, you won't have the problem on the Mac anyway.