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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Dec 14 08:14:36 -0800 2005 ------- This is very important for professional use. If we receive letter text or form text from a client in MS-Word format, which is very common, it is necessary to know whether the fonts displayed on screen and sent to printer are the same fonts the client expects (or fonts sufficiently similar that substitution is acceptable, eg. Swiss instead of Helvetica). Currently in OpenOffice the only way to do this is to run a cursor through the entire document sent, looking at the names of fonts in the font window, and checking if each font name that appears there is the name of a font actually installed on the computer being used. In MS Word, one can go into Tools/Options, click on the Compatiblity tab, and then on the "Font Substitution ..." button which either brings up a message that all fonts in current document have been found and no substitution has been made, or brings up a window indicating which fonts are not found and what substitution has been made, allowing the user to edit this table (and to actually replace the font with a substitute font within the document if desired.) In Quark Express, if one or more fonts are not found, a similar Window allowing the user to control substitution appears as the document loads, allowing the user to specify which fonts are to be substituted at that time. This I think the preferable way of dealing with the issue, as the user is immediately given the information about missing fonts without having to take the initiative of searching into the bowels of a menu, but can if desired simply click to bypass the screen and let the application then substitute as it wishes. My suggestion would be to bring up such a window of font substitutions in OpenOffice when a document loads and also allow access again to this window through Tools/Options in emulation of MS-Word. If we carelessly miss the fact that font substitution has occurred, production work and production time may be wasted, both on our end and on the client's end, when the client quite rightly complains that the fonts appearing in the signoff samples of the finished product are not correct. Currently under OpenOffice though Tools/Options/Tools/Fonts the user can set up a permanent font substitution table. Probably an option should appear here asking whether the user wishes not to be warned of any substitutions indicated by this table. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
