When I print or c+p to Word my document is shorter than it shows on Pages. Help?

It is probably due to that Pages and Word, or Mac and Windows handle the fonts a little differently. handle fonts and character a little differently.

Have you tried File > Export > Word? Or Export to PDF.

Don't use the ruler on the screen. It will not match. The problem isn't with the paper but the way PAges and Word (esp. on PC) handle the fonts. A PDF will not change the size but make sure in the Print window that it look OK.

In modern word processors, pages have no physical existence.

The application splits the document in logical pages according to the paper size, the margins, the header/footer settings, the fonts used …

If you want to get the same organisations of pages, insert page breaks to split pages where you want.

The drawback is that you may get an awful high blank area at the bottom of some pages

or,

if one day you use a font which is greater in Word, some pages would expand to an other page.

In both case the result will be awful.

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fruhulda wrote:

It is probably due to that Pages and Word, or Mac and Windows handle the fonts a little differently. handle fonts and character a little differently.

Which is in fact exactly what happens.

There are several issues, Pages uses Apple's ATSUI text rendering which Word does not.

Text exported from Pages to .doc seems to sneak in an additional return at the top of pages after Page Breaks.

The O.P. has not said whether they have set up the formatting to match the original, which would need to match everything, font, line spacing, indents, margins, space before etc down to the finest details. A quick look should tell what matches.

Peter

limsteph wrote:

Also, I just went in to check on page size and it says 8.5 x 11, but when I look at the ruler it looks like it's only 8 x 11.

Are you sure it isn't A4 which is 21 x 29.7 cm (8.25" x 11.7" in antediluvian measures)?

Check your Page Setup.

Peter

The PO clearly stated that he/she gets the same mis-match when staying within the Pages environment, without exporting.

Please check your settings for margins. In the document and in the print/page setup dialog window. If one is more restrictive than the other, you might get a mismatch.

If you read the O.P.'s post he says "I'm printing on a public computer".

Nothing about how he got the material onto the "public computer" or what that public computer is.

Given the general lack of awareness by most users, especially those with a "higher" education, of anything except maybe the logo on the screen, I'm taking that to be they are on a university PC and probably MsWord.

Peter

I think the OP meant a public printer, not a public computer.

OP also stated: "But let's say I don't c+p into Word -- if Pages shows I have ten full pages, shouldn't ten full pages print when I print?" To me that means printing from Pages.

But your general point is valid.

As I suggested, it's worth checking the margin settings.

It could be anything, but however we second guess it, it is quite likely that if they are actually printing from their Macbook to a public printer they do not have the printer drivers for the printer installed.

Highly likely the University is using some kind of Windows based Print server which is doing who knows what to the file.

As with all problems, you test across devices and software to isolate the problem. If it prints fine at home on the O.P.'s printer and elsewhere then the problem is the university printer set-up or what the user has done to get the file there.

Peter

Yes, that definitely would make a difference.

If anything, pages should be more accurate in reproducing what's shown on the screen than Word (it's more of a page layout, than a text, application) so I would guess there's something wrong wrong with the settings.

Good luck

There is a thought that however the file is being served, that the line spacing calculation is off due to the way Windows and Mac software works this out differently.

Are you using "Exactly" as your line spacing and nominating that in points?

You never said whether anything else is changing like line endings, or text is moving from the original any other way in the layout.

Peter