Document looks different on different computers

I am working on an ai document with a colleague but while it looks good on his computer, when I open it on my computer (from the same location on the server), it looks very grainy. When I print it it also looks fine, though. We have no idea why this should be, we both use the same departmental version of illustrator. Any ideas?

This is a copy directly from illustrator, which looks like it does on my screen. My colleague has gone home now, but below is a copy of another similar document he created, which looks ok on my screen also - and is about the same quality as the first image viewed on his computer. The difference is most obvious on the first panel.

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Well my first initial thought would be close to what you are describing, to gather all documents in one document, mark it all and start changeing, but what I want to make sure is to what settings I need to be aware of, are there other than margins, font, spacings? There are different spacings from when you hit enter to a new line to when you press the tabulator to indent a new line. Just clicking on the i button and then the T, alot of different settings comes up concerning different spacings, linings etc.
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I need to be able to copy/paste documents into the body of an email and have them look exactly like the original document. I could always do this on my PC using Microsoft Word. And all writers submitting work to agents do this. I just tried it with Apple's Pages and when I pasted it into the body of the email, the document looked totally different . . . no double spacing, no paragraphing etc. Even when I exported the document to Word, I copy/pasted it into an email and it looked totally different. I suspect Apple's version of Word does not perform like the real Word in all circumstances . . . Before I go out and buy Word and put it on my Apple, I would like to know if anyone else has had this issue and how they may have dealt with it. Thanks.

Drag and drop the file into the email, the formatting will be retained when it is opened by the recipient.

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Can my AI documents look different on another computer?

Hello, everybody.
I made some very simple forms for a woman, consisting of nothing but lines and text on a page, that wound up looking like a grid with text. Each one was perfectly centered on its own page. I sent them to her as pdf files. Before sending them (email) I checked each one in AI to be sure the pdf looked as good as the ai file. She took them to Office Depot to be printed, and they came out very off-center. The OD employee told her it was because of "differences between computers," and she suggested I make them off-center to compensate.
I thought the very purpose of pdf was to make sure that files would look the exact same regardless of the computer they were viewed on. Am I wrong about that?
Thanks

Thank you, Karen. Will you marry me? : )
Because... I had a pdf document of my own printed at the same OD a couple weeks ago. The employee at that time didn't know how to properly print a pdf and someone else had to show her how. But when I told my "client" about that, she just blew it off and said the employee had assured her I was the problem.
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Thanks again for your help, it was very nice of you to do that.
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Roger Barre wrote:
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Having the option to turn the warnings off would remove a recurring annoyance. I don't see what's wrong with that.
…"yet" being the operative word, history and these forums will not be on your side.
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So the point is you can't just copy the backupd files. The best solution that I know of (and maybe someone else will chime in) for copying them is to mirror the drive with something like Carbon Copy or some other program.
See this site for more information about time machine and how it works: http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html

HT1364 I used these instructions to move my i-tunes library to the external hard drive that two different home pc's access. My playlists do not show on both Is it possible to have one i-pod synch amid two different computers that use the same library?

I have a sole i-pod and two pc's, used the instructions for "iTunes for Windows: Moving your iTunes Media folder" in the hope that I could synch my one i-pod between two different computers that are sharing the same library. Is it possible to have two seperate computers that only share an external hard drive (one wireless, one not) ? When I am looking at a shared library should it appear the same on both machines (ie: playlists/ purchased list etc)?

If it is moved correctly, playlists will display on both computers and it should be possible.
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Hold <SHIFT> and launch iTunes.
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The entire library should now show up with all playlists and playcounts.
Do this on both computers.
Keep in mind that only one computer can access iTunes at a time, otherwise errors will occur when each computer attempts to write to or update the iTunesLibrary.itl file.
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Hi,
This might be a dumb question, but . . .
Currently I have all my iTunes files in one library on my eMac. I am getting a new iMac (YAY!) on Tuesday. What I'd LIKE to do is leave all my kids'/wife's iTunes stuff on the eMac, port my stuff over to the iMac— but still buy and manage both with the same account. 'Zat doable?
Thx

if i am understanding you correctly. Yes you can use the same iTunes account on up to 5 different computers.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3322
This will allow you to transfer you account information your iPhoto library, documents, and all of your applications

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I have the latest version of iTunes on my external hard drive, which I thought would make it easier to use iTunes on different computers. I have purchased quite a bit of music and have ripped several CDs, but I can't access any of it when I use my external hard drive with my laptop. I even downloaded iTunes directly onto my external hard drive to avoid this problem, but I can only see everything that I have purchased/downloaded into iTunes when I use the computer that I originally downloaded iTunes onto.
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Thank you in advance!!!!

Mate, I have been having exactly the same problem, but found the answer a page back.......
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