Notes re Open office & Linux/Win data

[Mark Jarvis]

I'm not surprised. Most people use serif fonts. I happen to prefer sans 
serif and the default substitution really stinks!

Once again, using the same fonts on both sides will give a more 
identical look.

-mj-

George Toft wrote:

> 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:
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>>
>> 1) I switch between Linux and Windows (XP).
>>
>> 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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