Testing Writer vs. Google Docs -- my first experience a troubling experience

Testing Writer vs. Google Docs -- my first experience a troubling experience

I'm evaluating Writer as an alternative to Google Docs which I've been using for 4 years. At first Writer seemed very nice until two simple things have baffled me and potentially put me off from using Writer. Follow this:

1. I selected a paragraph of text in the Welcome document and made it Double spaced. Fine.

2. I selected Print Preview, looked alright.

3. I selected Print With PDF and the PDF opened. But to my surprise the pagination seen in the Print Preview does not match what winds up in the PDF ---- bad news. That means Print Preview is useless as a means of knowing what will be in the PDF. That's a deal killer for anyone.

4. I thought "I wonder if changing the Line Height to Double Space confused the document", so I reselected the paragraph and selected Normal spacing, and it won't go back to Normal spacing and instead remains as Double spaced no matter how I try to make it go back to Normal. Bad. Deal killer.

Thought you should know. FYI, I'm using Firefox 3.0.10.

Surely my simple early findings can't be true, but there it is.













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