Pagination Differences Between Windows 7 and Windows 8

mgclark · Post by **mgclark** » Sat May 17, 2014 1:17 am

I run Atlantis on my Windows 7 notebook and on my Windows 8 desktop and have a problem with pagination. I am writing a 200-page textbook with lots of images and Atlantis will put the page breaks in different locations in the same file, depending on whether I open the file in a Windows 7 or Windows 8 machine. Any thoughts on why this would be...and how to fix it?

Thanks!

Post by **Robert** » Sat May 17, 2014 2:44 am

Hi,
This is because word processors paginate documents differently depending on which printer is default when the document is displayed or printed.
Here is from Word's numbering explained:

It is worth mentioning that in Word, "pages" do not exist in the document file. Like a professional typesetter, Word makes up its pages on the fly when it displays or prints a document. Word uses measurements from the installed fonts and the installed printer driver to do this. It is almost impossible to get two machines so exactly similar that a document will paginate with exactly the same page breaks on each. Sometimes people complain that when they open the document on a different machine, some of the page numbers in the TOC or Index are "wrong". They're not: when the document is opened on the other machine, minute variations in set-up that do not show over a ten page memo will cause variations in the position of page breaks in a 1,000-page manual. If you remember to update the TOC and Index before you print, the problem corrects itself.

HTH.
Cheers,
Robert

mgclark · Post by **mgclark** » Sat May 17, 2014 2:09 pm

This is helpful information. Thank you.

DaleDe · Post by **DaleDe** » Mon May 19, 2014 4:36 pm

If you want the page numbers to remain the same you can do it. Take the version with the least number of lines and insert a manual page break on each page. (On the insert menu).

This can be particularly annoying if you send someone a word document to be read like a book. It is not only the printer and fonts that affect this. I have found that word and Atlantis differ on the same machine.

Dale