--- Mark Jarvis <
mark.jarvis@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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