On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:53:41PM +0100, Herbert Duerr wrote:
> On 20.01.2012 11:24, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
> >[... about Liberation fonts ...]
> >
> >On the other hand, I wonder why these fonts are not installed on
> >Windows?
> 
> Their main purpose was to be metrically compatible with fonts that
> are very often used in document exchange. If there were no
> compatible fonts available on the system this usually results in
> text reflowing and this means unnecessary trouble. If the system
> always has the required fonts there is no need to install metrically
> compatible equivalents, which happens to be the case on Windows.
> 
> Hope that helps.

Yes, thanks.

Regards
-- 
Ariel Constenla-Haile
La Plata, Argentina

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