On 03/15/2008 02:28 AM, Jared Zammit wrote:
> I really like OpenOffice. Disregarding the price, it is equal to
> Microsoft Office, and when you factor the price in, it's unbeatable.
> However, the lack of one feature has held me back from switching
> completely: embedding fonts. I travel with my documents a lot, and
> tend to shy away from Times New Roman and Arial. Unfortunately, I am
> forced to use Microsoft Office if I want to preserve my typeface
> choices. Could you please work towards fixing this for a future
> release? It would be much appreciated. c

I believe that there are legal issues in doing this. See:

http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=20370

What fonts are you using that force you to use MSO? Arial & Times New
Roman are available in msttcorefonts are available for most any linux
system. Further, I think you will find font embedding issues even in MSO
if the fonts you are using if MS have no license to embed the font.
I've not tried it in some time, but I seem to recall that I could not
embed various Adobe PS fonts in MSO documents. If you are using a special


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