Re: Notes re Open office & Linux/Win data

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Author: Darrin Chandler
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To: m.jarvis, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Notes re Open office & Linux/Win data
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
   |  http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/
http://www.stilyagin.com/  |


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