[dustrho]

I'm wondering if this is a common problem, but it seems that all my documents in Word 2004 and 2008 are always too hard to view. I always use Word in the Print View to get the most viewing out of the document, and when the view is set to 100% it seems like the document is showing only at 75% instead of 100%. To fix this problem I have to view and edit all my documents at 125%, which makes the document look like it's set to 100% view.

Does this happen to anyone else, and if so is there a hidden setting somewhere to fix this?

Thanks.

[seanc]

Yep, I feel the same way, I set everything to 125%, which then looks huge when you open it on a PC.

Never did look into a way to fix it, I've switched to Open Office 3.0 which is now fully built to work with Aqua/Unified theme.

[turtle777]

Yes, same here. I think it has something to do with Windows using different dpi than OS X.

-t

[tooki]

Windows renders at 96dpi, Macs at 72dpi. So at a given display setting, a given point size of text appears 1/3 larger on a Windows system.

[TETENAL]

Windows assumes a 96 ppi display, Mac OS X assumes a 72 ppi display. In ancient times Macs actually had a 72 ppi display, which was nice for desktop publishing since one pixel was also one point. Then 100% on screen was exactly as large as the printout.

Todays displays all have much more pixels per inch (> 100 ppi) than both Mac OS X and Windows assume. Windows is closer though, so the display size appears to be more reasonable. To make the document as large on screen than the actual printout you need to take the actual ppi of your screen, divide it by 72 (96 on Windows) and multiply it by 100. Take that as the zoom factor and you get the correct size.

To see the actual physical ppi of your screen you can use a program as the following:

http://www.schubert-it.com/download/ScreenRes.sitx

[analogika]

I find that a zoom size of around 140% is approximately WYSIWYG on the Mac.

I don't need to share files with Windows users, so their problems are of no concern to me.