Discrepancies between iwork and microsoft office when viewing

Question

i have saved a document created on iwork as a microsoft word document. However, when opened from microsoft office, the document appears differently - the layout has been changed. Specifically, the content from page one on the iwork file spreads onto page two of the work file, if that makes sense. Is there a way to prevent this? It isn't ideal as it messes up the flow of the document and makes it look messy. Thanks

Answer 1

Even if you maintained exactly the same version of all the fonts which is as close as you are going to get, the difference in rendering engines will mean things will move and some features will not transfer at all.
Correct, of course.
Interestingly, for the poor folks who have produced Microsoft OpenType fonts for OpenType line layout, the problem is that Microsoft Word customers expect to use Microsoft Word as appearance format. This means not only that the font must be enabled for editable embedding, but that as well the simple CMAP Character Map shaping as the supplementary GSUB Glyph Substitution shaping must be communicated so that the measure of the line does not change when one user enables ligation and passes that Word file to another user.
The future for fonts is that full embedding is enforced in appearance-oriented page description models such as PDFXML and XPS, just as tagging of source character strings in the universal character set using unique markers for writing systems is enforced in these models. This direction in development will only work if the direction of demand is changed by education of everyday endusers with regard to replacing the broken Bics on the market with Montblancs -:).
/hh