Hi :) Good point! Thanks :) It's something i kinda knew but didn't really think about it much let alone grok it! I think you have just given me a big clue as to why my bosses machines don't display my documents correctly. It could easily be formatting issues related to them having different versions of the same font. It's a bit weird because they just use Windows and one of the machines appears to be identical to my neighbouring colleague's machine. Howeve3r my neighing colleagues machien had a reinstall of Xp so it's possibly got the fonts slightly different.
So, thanks for helping me! :) I hope the o.p.s question gets solved too! Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Steve Edmonds <[email protected]> >To: Tom Davies <[email protected]> >Cc: Jason Paul Joines <[email protected]>; LibreOffice Users ><[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, 25 March 2013, 0:52 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: any good libreoffice/linux fonts for >sharing documents with windows users > >And having the same font doesn't mean it's the same font. >I was using Arial on linux and mac and found they were different enough >to throw the formatting of my manuals out. So I had to delete Arial from >my mac and re-install it from my linux to get the same layout. This may >not be noticeable in a spreadsheet, but if you are relying on formatting >specifically for a certain page layout, it might just cause a total or >something to drop out of the print range. >Steve > >On 2013-03-25 12:52, Tom Davies wrote: >> 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 > > > > -- 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
