This is no longer a problem for me. I have not tested it in LibreOffice, though that is what I am using. The Ubuntu helpdesk helped me download a few Microsoft fonts that helped with the problem. Also, I have a Windows7 laptop that I got just for running my old Nikon slide scanner and we put Office2010 on it. By doing that, I was able to bring my documents up in 2010 and see what they looked like and fix them and then send them back to my LINUX machine for distribution to the people I was sending the documents out to. Some people didn't want PDF because you cannot take part of a page from it, so I ended up sending out .doc, .docx, and PDF to everyone to choose from in order to satisfy all the idiots who wanted a beautiful but compact document but were too lazy (or too incompetent) to print double-sided or fix the document themselves on their own machines. Fortunately, I have now turned this fun job over to someone else. They are being less accommodating and just sending out a PDF.
Thank you for following up on this issue. Marcia Shapiro -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to openoffice.org in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692336 Title: Writer output to newer versions of Word changes the format; older versions of Word are ok with it Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: openoffice.org OpenOffice output to .doc format doesn't work properly with Word if similar fonts are not found. Font substitution causes characters to look substantially bigger, distorting document formatting. For example, 16 page in OOo Writer takes up 22 pages in MS Word Attached: -My original OpenOffice document -Document saves as .doc (MicrosoftXP/2000/XP) -PDF shows what it looks like in Word2010 This font substitution problem is an issue for everyone, even people on Windows who use a font that a colleague (also using Windows) does not have, for example. This is a difficult problem to solve. Unfortunately there is no way around it other than reformatting or getting that font installed on the remote users computer. As far as I know, there is no way to ship the font within the file preventing font substitution from happening on a remote user's computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_substitution Feature request is to remind user of this fact if document uses non ttf-mscorefonts and is being saved as doc format. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/692336/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
