Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

2012/7/22 webmaster-Kracked_P_P <webmaster@krackedpress.com>:
> I try to keep the same set of "core fonts" - not just MS core web fonts - on
> all of my computers whether they are Windows or Ubuntu systems.  I tend to
> have over 100 fonts installed on these systems for greater flexability on
> the look of my documents printer/exported to PDF for distribution.  LO's
> Export to PDF, CUPS PDF printing for Linux, or doPDF PDF printing for
> Windows.
>
> The font installer, and other fonts software, is a good place to look at
> specialty fonts that might be used for your documents.  I used to use some
> really "special" ones from time to time, like letters made out of bone or
> other holiday related fonts.
>
> The core fonts that come with most MS systems, or the MS core font package
> for Linux, is just a start.  You really need to look at all of your options
> for typography of your documents.  Then using a PDF creation method, that
> embeds those fonts into your document, will make sure that your
> readers/users of those documents will see your work the way you want it to
> be seen.  LO does a good job with some of the popular fonts, but not as good
> on the decorative ones I tend to use.  That is where CUPS PDF and doPDF "PDF
> printer software" comes into play.  They will embed all of your specialty
> fonts into your documentation.  One day LO's Export to PDF will do that job
> as good as they do.
>
> As someone who download over 100,000 fonts from free font sites, I can tell
> you that there are many great looking fonts out there for your text and
> "special" documents that can be better than the MS core fonts.  All you have
> to do is take the time to look, download, and test some of them side to side
> with the MS core fonts.

One big problem, for people like me whose native language is not
English, is that many of those thousands of free fonts miss all
language specific characters, in my case åäöÅÄÖ, characters that are
just as common in my language as most of the other characters in my
alphabet (those characters are real letters and they are not to be
treated as aAoO with some additional stuff above them – they are even
sorted as individual characters, that is not among aA and oO, but
right after zZ). I didn't investigate this very thoroughly, so I don't
know exactly how many of those millions of free fonts that lacks
essential characters for many of the top hundred common languages (my
language reached 77th place in 2009, according to this lisst:
http://frankherles.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/the-100-most-spoken-languages-on-the-world/)…

But as long as I write in English, this is of course not a problem,
but I almost never do that when I don't write in mailing lists like
this one…


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

> On 07/22/2012 01:50 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
> > On 07/22/2012 01:04 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > > 2012/7/21 Anthony Easthope <antisocky@myopera.com>:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I was wondering what would be considered the core fonts on Microsoft.
> > > > After  ages fruitless searching I was wondering if anybody could help me
> > > > on what they would consider to be core fonts.
> > > > I backed up my fonts folder from windows 7 before the change to ubuntu
> > > > so I had all of them problem is I can not be bothered installing every
> > > > single one of them!
> >
> > If you search for ttf-mscorefonts in Synpatic you might find them already
> > installed. Also, you can install a font installer via Synaptic or the
> > Software Center to install the fonts you backed up from Windows 7.
> > > The quickest way, if you want to install those mss TTF core fonts from
> > > the repositories, is from a terminal. Just copy this line into a
> > > terminal and hit Enter. Note that the keyboard shortcut for Paste is
> > > Ctrl+Shift+v, if you didn't edit those yourself:
> > >
> > > sudo apt-get install ms-corefonts-installer
> > >
> > > The package contains:
> > > Andale
> > > Arial Black
> > > Arial
> > > Comic Sans
> > > Courier New
> > > Georgia
> > > Impact
> > > Times New Roman
> > > Trebuchet
> > > Verdana
> > > Webdings
> > >
> > > If you only want to use Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New, it's
> > > recommended that you use the free fonts from the package
> > > fonts-liberation instead (probably already installed on your system.
> > > Those are called something like Liberation Sans (looks like Arial) and
> > > so on.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > >
> > > Johnny Rosenberg
> > > ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
> > >
> > >
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