Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer document appears differently on two differen PC's

Steve Edmonds wrote:
> On 2011-03-29 11:37, Andy Brown wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > Mark Stanton wrote:
> > > Hi Andy,
> > >
> > > > First are the fonts used on both computers?
> > >
> > > Good thought!  It turns out, when I look closer, the document is a
> > > bit of
> > > a mish-mash of fonts and font styles.
> > >
> > > I actually couldn't find one of the (two) fonts on my own machine.
> > > Would
> > > LO substitute silently?  Surely it should complain if it can't find the
> > > font. But that looks like what's happened, because now that I've copied
> > > those (TrueType) fonts over and restarted LO (not just closed Writer,
> > > that didn't make any difference) the document now looks the same on both
> > > machines.  Brilliant Holmes!  Thanks :-D
> >
> > Seen this type of thing quite often in the forum so it is one of the
> > first to check.
>
> This is just the thing that drove me to suggest to have the option to
> embed (package) a font in the odt file.

Where was this made?  The bug tracer would be the best place, if it is 
possible with the ODF standard.

> May be a handy hints page would be useful for users who come across
> these idiosyncrasies.

Maybe the Help wiki would be a good place.

Andy


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