Notes re Open office & Linux/Win data

[George Toft]

The Nimbus fonts (Linux OO) has always worked for me - looks the same as 
the default courier and times new roman fonts under Windows.  I never 
noticed the difference, and I use OO interchangably under Windows and Linux.

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Mark Jarvis wrote:
> 
> 1) I switch between Linux and Windows (XP).
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> 2) I use Open Office in both.
> 
> 3) I need my data available to both.
> 
> 4) I use flash drives extensively.
> 
> 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.
> 
> I keep my data in a fat32/vfat partition that is accessible to all OS 
> installations. I've found that adding ",umask=0,users" to the options in 
> the applicable line in /etc/fstab makes it writable by any user (not 
> just root) and any user can mount or unmount it. This also works for the 
> flash drives, since they also are formatted fat32/vfat. I don't know why 
> the "umask=0" option isn't default. BTW, some distros insist on 
> re-writing /etc/fstab on boot, dumping any special fixes you--the 
> owner--may have added. Usually giving it "400" permissions stops that, 
> but not always.
> 
> Just a couple of tips that might help someone.
> 
> -mj-
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