On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 22:38:09 +1100 Martin Groenescheij <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 29/12/2014 9:49 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > On 28/12/2014 Urmas wrote: > >> "Martin Groenescheij": > >>> OpenOffice doesn't include fonts > >> You're a fool. It obviously does. > > > > Martin is not a fool and he often provides useful information; he was > > simply wrong in this particular case, but this happens and other > > community members can promptly rectify wrong advice. > Thanks Andrea, > > I like to refer to the email from Rory O'Farrel from 23 Dec 2014 where > he said: > "OpenOffice uses the fonts installed on your computer." > and the email from Regina Henschel from 24 Dec 2014 where she said: > "fonts are independent of OpenOffice" > > So I was not aware of the exceptions of the rule I can now confirm that > there are some fonts included > Arimo, DejaVu, Gentium Basic and Open Symbols I also was not aware that OpenOffice included fonts; coming from a designer background my computers are liberally stocked with fonts and I don't normally notice if an application adds or tries to add a font or font family, as it may already be resident on my computer. The normal query on the Forum is from a user who had a particular font on an older installation and thinks that OpenOffice should supply and install this font as he suspects it might have done previously, but he/she is actually not aware of where the font in question actually came from. > > > > >> DejaVu fonts version included is 2.33. > > > > Correct, and in general for those who wonder: look at > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/ext_sources/ > > and > > https://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/ooo-extras/downloads/list > > to see what fonts are (optionally) bundled with OpenOffice. > > > > Regards, > > Andrea. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > -- Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
