Notes re Open office & Linux/Win data

[Kenneth]

--- Mark Jarvis <mark.jarvis at pvmail.maricopa.edu> wrote:

> I've found out (the hard way) that while OO-Win has access to any and 
> all fonts installed in Windows, OO-Linux has its own set of fonts with 
> many of the common and popular fonts simply not available. The default 
> substitutions for common Windows mono-spaced (Courier New) and serif 
> (Times New Roman) fonts aren't too bad. The default substitution for the 
> sans serif font I used to use heavily (Arial), however, stunk. It really 
> messed up page and slide layout when I created something in OO-Win, then 
> brought it up in OO-Linux. Two other fonts, Bitstream Vera Sans and 
> Tahoma, however, are available in both and work quite nicely.

The Font howto at tldp.org tells how to obtain and install copies of MS fonts
(legal as long as you own a copy of windows, from my understanding).  These
include Arial, Verdana, etc.


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