Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0
Peter I recently read that someone had done some tests on formatting text from/to MS Office. They found that changing the font to a particular serif font got the formatting almost exact. Trouble is I can't remember which Linux font it was, I'll keep looking for it. Also they said M$ had changed the newer Office default font to a new M$ copyrighted font to stop people moving away from M$!! It would be interesting to confirm both the above. C A Wills On 19/03/11 09:09, Peter Merchant wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 17:33 +, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: On 16/03/11 09:50, Chris Dennis wrote: I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. I thought I'd try LibreOffice, so I added this to my sources.list: http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu maverick main Which reminds me, I spotted a neat way to add repos in Ubuntu that's new. It may be old news to some, but you can do:- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice This will add the GPG key too. John Bye-Bye OpenOffice, Hello LibreOffice I downloaded it from here: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ Works OK, except that I haven't got rid of the file associations on xls spreadsheets that I have. OpenOffice is no longer in the associations list, But when I click on file in Dolphin, It tries to open it in openoffice. I have to right click and select Libreoffice. Oh, and it really B*ggered the formatting in a students docx file :) Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0
On 19/03/11 18:28, C A Wills wrote: Peter I recently read that someone had done some tests on formatting text from/to MS Office. They found that changing the font to a particular serif font got the formatting almost exact. Trouble is I can't remember which Linux font it was, I'll keep looking for it. I would have thought installing the MS core fonts would be the best bet for this, as then you have the most commonly use ones Arial, Times New Roman, Verdana. I still find the razor sharp Tahoma, also included in MS core fonts, unbeatable for desktop menu fonts, but it's essential to disable anti-aliasing for this and other bytecode interpreted fonts. Tim Also they said M$ had changed the newer Office default font to a new M$ copyrighted font to stop people moving away from M$!! It would be interesting to confirm both the above. C A Wills On 19/03/11 09:09, Peter Merchant wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 17:33 +, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: On 16/03/11 09:50, Chris Dennis wrote: I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. I thought I'd try LibreOffice, so I added this to my sources.list: http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu maverick main Which reminds me, I spotted a neat way to add repos in Ubuntu that's new. It may be old news to some, but you can do:- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice This will add the GPG key too. John Bye-Bye OpenOffice, Hello LibreOffice I downloaded it from here: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ Works OK, except that I haven't got rid of the file associations on xls spreadsheets that I have. OpenOffice is no longer in the associations list, But when I click on file in Dolphin, It tries to open it in openoffice. I have to right click and select Libreoffice. Oh, and it really B*ggered the formatting in a students docx file :) Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0
On 19/03/11 22:48, C A Wills wrote: Noted Tims reply but that's using M$ fonts which are copyrighted, to keep on the 'right side' you have to have 'M$ Word' installed, see above site. C A Wills If you are talking about MS corefonts they are copyrighted but you are free to distribute and use as many copies as you like as long as it contains everything in the release. A very rare case for M$ and they probably now regret it. http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/eula.htm -- -- Discover Linux - Open Source Solutions to Business and Schools http://discoverlinux.co.uk -- -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Openoffice 3.3.0
Hi, John Cooper wrote: If you are talking about MS corefonts they are copyrighted but you are free to distribute and use as many copies as you like as long as it contains everything in the release. A very rare case for M$ and they probably now regret it. http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/eula.htm On Ubuntu 10.10 I think the installer for them is packaged as sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
