Torben AEgidius Mogensen wrote:
> If you upload your document as a PDF, I don't think so (at least, I
> haven't experienced any such). What happens when Word is converted to
> PDF is anyones guess, so I shouldn't wonder if something goes wrong
> here. IIRC, Word itself can not output PDF, so you typically use a
> 3rd-party tool to do so, often in the form of a pseudo-printer (that
> prints to a PDF file instead of paper).

Yes, I use a 3rd-party programme called PDFCreator, as a "driver".

> When you convert from Word to PDF, fonts are converted from TrueType
> to PostScript fonts. Normally, equivalent fonts are found instead of
> actually trying to convert the outlines (which is tricky, as TrueType
> is based on quadratic Bezier curves and PostScript fonts on cubic
> Bezier curves), but the equivalent fonts might not be exactly the same
> -- often TrueType copies of copyrighted fonts deliberately introduce
> small differences to avoid legislation. Also, kerning may be
> different. Word is notoriously bad at kerning, so when you convert to
> PostScript and PDF, you get better kerning, but this might change
> spacing a bit. Also, ligatures for ff, fi and fl might be slightly
> different.

That still doesn't explain why everything looks slightly "zoomed", with
the margins being larger. The change in font size is minimal, to the
point where it can't be seen. All I see is that if I take one printout
of the Word version and one of the PDF version, and stack them and hold
the stack up against a strong light, the Word version's "dark area", the
area that is not margin, is a few mm larger.

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Peter Knutsen
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