Compatibility to PC

[Dreya]

I just send a NWP-document as rtf to someone's PC. Unexpectedly, font changed from Courier New to Courier New PSMT, and instead of 30 lines there are 38. I tried saving as doc and it was the same.
Does anyone have a clue how I can make text documents appear in a PC exactly the same as it's on my Mac in NWP?

[martin]

I just send a NWP-document as rtf to someone's PC.

What software (and version) was used on the PC to read the document?

Unexpectedly, font changed from Courier New to Courier New PSMT

"Courier New PSMT" is actually just the PostScript (internal/technical) name for "Courier New"; they are the same font.

and instead of 30 lines there are 38. I tried saving as doc and it was the same.
Does anyone have a clue how I can make text documents appear in a PC exactly the same as it's on my Mac in NWP?

In general one cannot guarantee the exact same layout when transferring living/editable documents between computers/software. Even if all formatting (eg: fonts, spacing, etc) is imported correctly between software, differences in the text layout engines can result in different text placement, and thus different numbers of lines.

If you absolutely need a document to appear exactly the same everywhere, you should choose a file format designed for such presentation, like PDF.

[Dreya]

The word version of a friend's PC where I tried is Word 2000.

I understand that compatibility is not easy to attain but since I am a translator of novels I have to get documents in a way to publishing companies so that they have manuscript pages which do have the same amount of lines. When I had a PC there was no problem at all, of course, it arouses first when I changed to mac three years ago. I tried till recently with pages which has its own disadvantages hoping that NWP would be solve compatibility problems. But sure, if there is no way, there isn't.

[martin]

The word version of a friend's PC where I tried is Word 2000.

Well, that's a pretty old version of Word, but if you have a particular document that you feel NWP is not saving things properly, send it to us and we'll test against a more recent version of Word.

When I had a PC there was no problem at all, of course, it arouses first when I changed to mac three years ago. I tried till recently with pages which has its own disadvantages hoping that NWP would be solve compatibility problems. But sure, if there is no way, there isn't.

I don't want to say there's "no way", but having editable formats (like RTF and .doc) be preserved exactly is always a challenge. Even between different versions of Word things aren't always imported properly. And again, differences in layout engines can shift the placement of text/lines.

If you truly need exactly the same number/placement of lines in your document, you had better use the exact same hardware/software that is expected for the final/presentation version. Or switch to producing a file using a format that is designed for this kind of task, like PDF (which NWP can also save).