Thank you to Messrs. Hamilton and Phipps for their exposition of the
challenges of embedding fonts in ODF files, haven't seen it explained that
clearly before.
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See, I learned about this forum (it isn't really a forum, it's something
concocted out of mailing lists to sort of resemble a real forum) by accident
one month ago, from a
http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/03/17/flattr-us/ blog comment by
Florian Effenberger . My suggestion to advertise the
Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
But there are existing LibreOffice and OpenOffice forums. I still don't
get
the point.
Why aren't the users of LibreOffice being told about them?
www.libreoffice.org/get-help/ is the Help page. Let's see what it says:
For user support, we have:
* Mailing
Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
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What did You *act* to get it there?
etc.
Friedrich, see my earlier postings (with references / links to earlier
commentary).
Anyway, I'm glad that people are responding. I guess it proves the adage,
the squeaky wheel gets the grease
Tell you what,
Would be interesting if there were a metric that tells
Total number of bugs
Aged bugs (= 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 5 years)
By priority
By status
By votes
By difficulty to fix
A chart showing proportion of fixed bugs to total bugs at selected points in
time
etc.
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toki wrote:
Or do you seriously think that somebody should put up with a mean time
of 100 seconds to BSOD, in addition to its other known points of
failure, instead of using tools that work as advertised, and is
compatible with tools on other platforms?
jonathon
Obviously, your
Mark Preston wrote:
There may be some truth to what you say, but I don't think Microsoft
bashing will advance LibO, which is what we want to do.
Mark, you confirm my suspicions: open-source folks don't really want
Microsoft to stop their outrageous proprietary file-format lock-in, because
A follow up-thought: As I google my way through history catching up on
developments, I come across
http://news.cnet.com/OpenDocument-goes-to-vote-in-Texas,-Minnesota/2100-7344_3-6157245.html
this page reporting on ODF file format being made mandatory (to the
exclusion of proprietary Microsoft
M. Fioretti wrote:
Ooo/LibO are a means to use OpenDocument, not the reverse (1). And
those who should sue are citizens and governments, not the open source
community.
(1) see OpenDocument first. Always at
Ian Lynch wrote:
On 6 April 2011 04:41, aqualung lt;xfekdcugj...@mailinator.comgt; wrote:
Well, how many full-time developers, working 40-hour workweeks, does
Microsoft Office have... and how many OOo and LibO?
If the answer for MO is, say, 300... and the full-time equivalent for OOo
Mark Preston wrote:
That really is not something we can do much about without hiring
Microsoft to make sure they are fixed - and that simply will not
happen, even if we wanted it to.
Okay... while waiting for my two comments from earlier today to be approved
by the mailing list, I thought
Well, how many full-time developers, working 40-hour workweeks, does
Microsoft Office have... and how many OOo and LibO?
If the answer for MO is, say, 300... and the full-time equivalent for OOo /
LibO is 50... then it's pretty much a given that MO will always have a
bigger feature set and be
If all that recently collected donation money is burning a hole in your
pocket, you could have maybe half a dozen professionally produced Flash
videos, each one showing a good-looking, smiling LO user from every
continent, saying Welcome to LibreOffice! in their language and with their
preferred
Obviously, all francophone users will pronounce LibreOffice one way...
according to the pronunciation conventions of their language.
The rest of the world, unless they have been exposed to French by learning
it as a second language, will have no idea.
Before a recommended pronunciation is posted
A postscript:
Free does not necessarily mean lower quality. Some beautiful free fonts
that I have on my system include
- Yanone Kaffeesatz
- Lavoisier
- Ubuntu
- and of course the terrific Linux Libertine G and Linux Biolinum G
There are free fonts for all sorts of special needs, for example the
P.P.S.: And of course, even when both the sender and the recipient have the
same font installed on their system, there still is no iron-clad guarantee
that both will see the exact same thing on their computer screen, due to the
variety of display schemes (ClearType sub-pixel rendering etc.) in
Italo Vignoli wrote:
I was working as a consultant for Adobe at that time, and I have been
the PDF spokeperson for Europe for several years.
It is true that many years have gone by, but fonts are handled by
operating systems in the same way. If they are not installed in their
specific
O.K., so is everyone now in agreement that there is no legal problem
embedding a font that explicitly licenses itself to be embedded?
I am new here and am a bit mystified at the way discussion seems to move,
with inapposite answers to comments and then the point gets lost along the
way.
This
Thank you for your reply but I do not understand.
The OP was making a feature request for font embedding to be added to
LibreOffice.
I commented on the licensing aspect.
Now you note something about a suite -- do you mean suite as in office
suite? Microsoft's Office suite has this ability. PDF
Thank you, that is very clear.
I am still not understanding Charles' comment.
Steve Edmonds wrote:
Hi. sorry, this is probably my imprecise english. By suite I meant the
LO suite (group) of products, were font embedding in files to be
extended to more than writer. Otherwise, if font
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