Mark Jarvis 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.
It's also not too hard to put Windows TrueType fonts into X. Fun, fun.
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Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group
dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/
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