Hi :)
Good point! Thanks :) It's something i kinda knew but didn't really
think about it much let alone grok it! I think you have just given
me a big clue as to why my bosses machines don't display my documents
correctly. It could easily be formatting issues related to them
having different versions of the same font. It's a bit weird because
they just use Windows and one of the machines appears to be identical
to my neighbouring colleague's machine. Howeve3r my neighing
colleagues machien had a reinstall of Xp so it's possibly got the
fonts slightly different.
So, thanks for helping me! :) I hope the o.p.s question gets solved
too!
Regards from
Tom :)
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*From:* Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com>
*To:* Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
*Cc:* Jason Paul Joines <jason@joines.org>; LibreOffice Users
<users@global.libreoffice.org>
*Sent:* Monday, 25 March 2013, 0:52
*Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: any good libreoffice/linux
fonts for sharing documents with windows users
And having the same font doesn't mean it's the same font.
I was using Arial on linux and mac and found they were different
enough
to throw the formatting of my manuals out. So I had to delete
Arial from
my mac and re-install it from my linux to get the same layout.
This may
not be noticeable in a spreadsheet, but if you are relying on
formatting
specifically for a certain page layout, it might just cause a
total or
something to drop out of the print range.
Steve
On 2013-03-25 12:52, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Installing the mst core fonts does ask you to sign MS's Eula.
There might be OpenSource versions of Arial and other MS fonts but
somehow i doubt it. I think a lot of people just accept that
those fonts are unavoidable and just sign the Eula but it would be
really nice to be able to avoid it completely. I wonder what
other people do because i'm sure you are not alone.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Jason Paul Joines <jason@joines.org
<mailto:jason@joines.org>>
>> To: LibreOffice Users <users@global.libreoffice.org
<mailto:users@global.libreoffice.org>>
>> Sent: Sunday, 24 March 2013, 23:09
>> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: any good libreoffice/linux
fonts for sharing documents with windows users
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: any good libreoffice/linux fonts for sharing
documents with
>> windows users
>> From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmaster@krackedpress.com
<mailto:webmaster@krackedpress.com>>
>> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
<mailto: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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