Anyone else ever notice that their Google Drive documents look different depending on the computer you are using?
Anyone else ever notice that their Google Drive documents look different depending on the computer you are using? Tabs and spacing change depending on if I'm looking at a file on my home PC or my work PC.
Is there a "true" version of the file? Or if I opened it from a third PC would it be different in a new way? Frustrating.
Is there a "true" version of the file? Or if I opened it from a third PC would it be different in a new way? Frustrating.
I thought that might be it too, but I'm talking about documents created within Drive itself. The fonts and spacing should be the same since they all come straight from the Drive word processor.
ReplyDeleteFor example, on my home PC, the text of this file fits on one page:
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Looking at it on my work PC, two lines spill over onto the second page and there are a couple of tabs off.
You are not crazy, I have experienced this. Once spent two days in an edit war with someone on a Mac adjusting some tab separated values since what looks fine on their screen runs together on mine, and what looks good on mine is too spaced out on theirs.
ReplyDeleteThe issue I experienced was a Windows/Mac mismatch. Are the two PCs running different OSes?
Glad I'm not crazy Sarah Perry-Shipp! I didn't think about OS, but yes, home is Ubuntu and work is Windows. Maybe it's the way an OS displays fonts? This is beyond my technical capability.
ReplyDeleteBut Random Wizard, using Droid Sans did make it fit on one page. Maybe the secret is finding fonts that display the same no matter the OS?
Thanks for the second and third sets of eyes!
Casey Garske That is likely the case, but I do not know enough about font rendering engines to say for certain.
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