[Tom_Older]

I am compiling an anthology working partly at home and partly at my work office. The main body of the anthology of poetry, using Word 2004, is set at Geneva 11. I have now found that the G4 Quicksilver in my office fits in more lines per page for the same document set at the same font, than it does when transferred via my memory stick, to the Mac Mini desktop G4 at home. The latter, as also my G3 iBook, reproduces less lines per page, and looks slightly bigger.
The only difference between the two places is that I have a laserjet printer in the office and an HP deskjet at home.
This is driving me nuts as I want to work in both places. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Word 2004 at home, no joy. The same document in my memory stick, when opened in the office, takes up less room than when opened on my home computer.
I'm baffled. Any help appreciated.

[Tom_Older]

PS
I should add, I forgot, is that my office Quicksilver is on Panther, my home computers on Tiger. I don't know if this is some Tiger-specific font problem.

[Randy_B_Singer]

I haven't seen this problem in years. Back when I owned both an Apple StyleWriter (an inkjet) and a Postscript laser printer.
The solution is actually quite simple. Install the printer drivers for both printers on both Macs (at home and at work) and use Page Setup to set both machines to use the same printer. Once Page Setup is set to use the same printer on both machines, the formatting will be exactly the same on both machines.

[Tom_Older]

Thanks. I reckon that's it, trouble is I'm not sure yet if I will be able to fix it. There's no problem with the book being printed out in the laserjet in the office, it's quicker. But publishers these days want a CD with the hard copy, and the Quicksilver won't burn CD's. It, like my G3 iBook, is a veteran of late summer 2001. Only the Mac Mini at home will burn them, and that's where the pagination transfer problems start. It's "Geneva 11" takes a deal more room than the Quicksilver/ laserprint.
The Quicksilver has Panther overlaid OS. 9.1. When firewiring the Deskjet Printer from the iBook to it and trying to start it up, I got "Classic is having problems updating its files". Looks like it should have been upped to 9.2 before I put Panther on it. Going the other way, installing the Laser Printer CD on the G3, I got "ColMgrlib missing" on attempted launch. At home (my iBook has an OS9 partition as well as Tiger) I found out that that meant an extension was disabled, and I duly enabled it. But it looks like I will have to take the iBook back tomorrow to the office for it to be configured to the print machine there.
I've found that the Mac Mini / deskjet Helvetica works out about just the same size as the Quicksilver / laserjet Geneva. Maybe I'll just give them Helvetica on the CD. I found out when trawling the web over this yesterday that Geneva is an Apple font, and that's maybe why a previous book I did, I was told by the printer they don't have Geneva.
I'll soldier on with this. Thanks for putting the finger on what the problem is anyhow, that helps with the sanity stakes.