Hi :) I recently started using "Anchor to paragraph" instead of "Anchor to page" which i had previously preferred. It's difficult to get the balance right either way tho.
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, 16:56 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: any good libreoffice/linux fonts for >sharing documents with windows users > >Hi Tom. >I was out 1 line every 1 or 2 pages, which in 40 pages put my layout, images, >illustrations, etc. all askew. >Steve >On 2013-03-26 04:57, Tom Davies wrote: >> 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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> >> To: LibreOffice Users <[email protected] >> <mailto:[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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> >> To: [email protected] >> <mailto:[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
