[libreoffice-users] Re: any good libreoffice/linux fonts for sharing documents with windows users

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Subject: Re: any good libreoffice/linux fonts for sharing documents with
windows users
From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: 2013.03.24.Sun.16:34:33
> On 03/24/2013 03:45 PM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote:
> > Le 24/03/2013 19:55, Jason Paul Joines a écrit :
> > >      I'm using LibreOffice 4.0.1.2 on Kubuntu 12.04.2.  I'm working
> > > on a
> > > spreadsheet that I will need to send to a windows user who is not using
> > > LibreOffice.  What native Linux/LibreOffice font can I use that will
> > > also be available on the windows system?
> >
> > To complement Kieran's answer, the Liberation fonts (available as
> > Mono, Sans Serif, Sans Narrow and Serif) are supposed to have exactly
> > the same width and height of resp. CourierNew, Arial, Arial Narrow
> > and TimesNewRoman. Thus you may use them as they'll either be
> > available on the target PC or replaced with the default ones cited
> > above.
>
> I would make sure you have "ttf-mscorefonts" installed on your Kubuntu
> system.  That will give you the core Windows fontson your
> Kubuntu/Ubuntu system.
>
> Verdana, Tahoma, Georgia, and Trebuchet MS, are core fonts that seem
> to be apart of most Windows systems.  Add those tothe list of others.
>
> So, you are creating a spreadsheet using LO that will be used in
> Excel? I would stick with the following: Arial, Tahoma, and Georgia.
>
> There is an art and science involved in choosing fonts, or a list of
> fonts, that wouldbe a good choice to used for documents between
> systems and OS types.  People have even made lists of which fonts are
> used on one system that would be as close as possible to other font
> names on other systems.
>
> Personally, I tend to make sure my Windows and Ubuntu systems have the
> same set of fonts.  If I need to share documents that are to be used
> and edited by others, and I know which OS they are using, I then stick
> with font names that I know they will have as one of their core fonts.
>
> Since I currently have not installed any fonts on a new laptop, that
> was not installed by Win7/Home Premium. or LO and any other package, I
> could make a list of all of the installed fonts in the Win7 laptop and
> see if I can highlight the ones that were installed by packages like
> LO and Corel Draw, over top of the ones installed when the OS was
> placed onto the laptop by Gateway.

    Thanks for the information.  I may try the Liberation fonts though
they don't look seem to look very nice.  I use LibreOffice and Linux
because they are open source.  I really don't want to have anything from
microsoft on my system so I'll probably avoid ttf-mscorefonts.


Jason
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