Publisher documents are displayed differently in MAC and PC environment

[Globe]

Hi Forum,

I have two installations of Publisher, one on Mac, the other on a PC (with two different licenses). 

Unfortunately the documents are displayed differently after opening them on these two different platforms. All required fonts are installed on each computer. I noticed that 

1. The line spacing seems to be displayed differently.
2. Images are "falling" out of the frame at random locations. 

Does anybody has an idea where I could start searching for the root cause?

Thanks

"Globe"

[kenmcd]

What font are you using?

This could happen if "Use Typo Metrics" is Off inside the font, and the font has different vertical metrics for Win and Mac.

If that is the case, you can work around it by setting a fixed leading/line spacing.

[Globe]

Thank you for your reply and ideas, LibreTraining.

I'm using:

• Arial
• Calibri
• Cambria
• LazyBird
• Symbol
• Trebuchet MS fett
• Uni Sans Heavy CAPS

How do I find out if "Use Typo Metrics" is OFF inside the font? 

[walt.farrell]

5 minutes ago, Globe said:

I'm using:

• Arial
• Calibri
• Cambria
• LazyBird
• Symbol
• Trebuchet MS fett
• Uni Sans Heavy CAPS

It's also important that you have the exact same version of the fonts on each machine.

[carl123]

38 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

It's also important that you have the exact same version of the fonts on each machine.

I wonder if you save as package and open the package on the other machine would it offer to install "missing" fonts if just the version number is wrong?

Or does it just check the font name

Unfortunately, I can't check that.

Maybe a Moderator would know?

[walt.farrell]

10 minutes ago, carl123 said:

I wonder if you save as package and open the package on the other machine would it offer to install "missing" fonts if just the version number is wrong?

From the other ongoing Package discussion, I suspect that a version difference would cause the font to be shown as Modified in the dialog when you Open the package, and that Publisher would then offer to locally install the different font just for use in that document.

But I cannot confirm that, either.

[jmwellborn]

@Globe  A belated welcome to the Affinity Forums.  Have you by any chance two vertical guides on the master page for your Mac document that are in the same position as the dotted lines shown on your page?  If you remove those guides from the master page, can you reposition your text frame so that it goes all the way to the right margin and stretches down to the bottom margin?  Does that do anything to improve your text spacing?  Just a thought.

[kenmcd]

On 3/8/2022 at 5:52 AM, Globe said:

How do I find out if "Use Typo Metrics" is OFF inside the font? 

I use a font editor.
You could use FontForge which is FOSS and has a Mac version.
Some font managers will show you.
But it really does not matter as you are not going to change it.

When you see vertical metrics differences between Windows and Mac,
you need to set a fixed leading/line height.

Many fonts will have different vertical metrics settings for Win vs. Mac in the same font.
And when "Use Typo Metrics" is Off ... those different settings are used on the different OSs.
Some Microsoft Office fonts have different fonts with different settings depending of if Office is the Windows version or the Mac version (Calibri, Palatino, and a few others).
Font developers will sometimes put different metrics in the OTF version vs. the TTF version.
Different versions of the font may have different vertical metrics.

Since you really do not have any control over these settings - set a fixed leading/line height.
That will work-around this issue.