Hi :) Installing the mst core fonts does ask you to sign MS's Eula. There might be OpenSource versions of Arial and other MS fonts but somehow i doubt it. I think a lot of people just accept that those fonts are unavoidable and just sign the Eula but it would be really nice to be able to avoid it completely. I wonder what other people do because i'm sure you are not alone. Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Jason Paul Joines <[email protected]> >To: LibreOffice Users <[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, 24 March 2013, 23:09 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: any good libreoffice/linux fonts for sharing >documents with windows users > >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: Re: any good libreoffice/linux fonts for sharing documents with >windows users >From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Date: 2013.03.24.Sun.16:34:33 >> On 03/24/2013 03:45 PM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: >>> Le 24/03/2013 19:55, Jason Paul Joines a écrit : >>>> I'm using LibreOffice 4.0.1.2 on Kubuntu 12.04.2. I'm working >>>> on a >>>> spreadsheet that I will need to send to a windows user who is not using >>>> LibreOffice. What native Linux/LibreOffice font can I use that will >>>> also be available on the windows system? >>> >>> To complement Kieran's answer, the Liberation fonts (available as >>> Mono, Sans Serif, Sans Narrow and Serif) are supposed to have exactly >>> the same width and height of resp. CourierNew, Arial, Arial Narrow >>> and TimesNewRoman. Thus you may use them as they'll either be >>> available on the target PC or replaced with the default ones cited >>> above. >>> >> >> I would make sure you have "ttf-mscorefonts" installed on your Kubuntu >> system. That will give you the core Windows fontson your >> Kubuntu/Ubuntu system. >> >> Verdana, Tahoma, Georgia, and Trebuchet MS, are core fonts that seem >> to be apart of most Windows systems. Add those tothe list of others. >> >> So, you are creating a spreadsheet using LO that will be used in >> Excel? I would stick with the following: Arial, Tahoma, and Georgia. >> >> There is an art and science involved in choosing fonts, or a list of >> fonts, that wouldbe a good choice to used for documents between >> systems and OS types. People have even made lists of which fonts are >> used on one system that would be as close as possible to other font >> names on other systems. >> >> Personally, I tend to make sure my Windows and Ubuntu systems have the >> same set of fonts. If I need to share documents that are to be used >> and edited by others, and I know which OS they are using, I then stick >> with font names that I know they will have as one of their core fonts. >> >> Since I currently have not installed any fonts on a new laptop, that >> was not installed by Win7/Home Premium. or LO and any other package, I >> could make a list of all of the installed fonts in the Win7 laptop and >> see if I can highlight the ones that were installed by packages like >> LO and Corel Draw, over top of the ones installed when the OS was >> placed onto the laptop by Gateway. >> >> >> >> > > Thanks for the information. I may try the Liberation fonts though >they don't look seem to look very nice. I use LibreOffice and Linux >because they are open source. I really don't want to have anything from >microsoft on my system so I'll probably avoid ttf-mscorefonts. > > >Jason >=========== > > > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
