Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Crowdfunding campaign for interoperability with Microsoft® Office

2021-02-13 Thread Telesto
Hi All, Not to ruin the mood, but please consult a (or few) developers (like Justin). The whole interoperability thing is pretty quirky topic as the function set and/or ground design of LibreOffice being different. So interoperability always end in awful 'limitations' or needs massive

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Crowdfunding campaign for interoperability with Microsoft® Office

2021-02-13 Thread Uwe Altmann
HI Raffaele Am 10.02.21 um 18:33 schrieb Raffaele Mancuso: (1) I don't agree that the increase in file size by embedding fonts would be a problem. Nowadays kids download 30 GB videogames over the internet. Besides the arguments brought up there is one further: The main problem afaik is the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Crowdfunding campaign for interoperability with Microsoft® Office

2021-02-11 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2021-02-10 à 12 h 33, Raffaele Mancuso a écrit : > (3) I thought more generally at handling them better. The first time I > opened a document that used Calibri with LibreOffice, it was not at > all obvious to me that the font name being displayed in italics by > LibreOffice meant that the font

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Crowdfunding campaign for interoperability with Microsoft® Office

2021-02-10 Thread Italo Vignoli
Hi Raffaele, I will try to answer the most relevant point, trying to be as succinct as possible. On 2/10/21 6:33 PM, Raffaele Mancuso wrote: There have already been specific projects about interoperability, funded by different entities. There is a team in Hungary working full time for OOXML

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Crowdfunding campaign for interoperability with Microsoft® Office

2021-02-10 Thread Raffaele Mancuso
Italo, I will focus here only on the major issues and postpone what I deem the minor ones to our future chat. Thanks for the message. Ineroperability is definitely a topic worth of further efforts. I am adding some comments to your message, but the best option is probably to organize a chat

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Crowdfunding campaign for interoperability with Microsoft® Office

2021-01-28 Thread jean-francois
Hi Michael, Le 28/01/2021 à 20:01, Michael D. Setzer II a écrit : Does your extension have a list of what fonts it requires to be installed and would it be possible to create a script that would install the fonts using dnf or apt or similar programs. Then create the table?? I could add the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Crowdfunding campaign for interoperability with Microsoft® Office

2021-01-28 Thread jean-francois
Hi Uwe, Le 28/01/2021 à 19:32, Uwe Altmann a écrit : Hi Jean-Francois Am 28.01.21 um 18:40 schrieb jean-francois: I have created an extension that creates the substitution table, as demonstrated in Italo's blog post, here: Great idea - but the link directs to Italos post, not to your

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Crowdfunding campaign for interoperability with Microsoft® Office

2021-01-28 Thread jean-francois
Hello! jumping in the bandwagon wrt: Le 28/01/2021 à 15:36, Marc Paré a écrit : Why not take a page out of the Linux distributions where there could be a function in the "Options -> Fonts" menu, where a user could download a set of LibreOffice approved substitutions fonts. The function could

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Crowdfunding campaign for interoperability with Microsoft® Office

2021-01-28 Thread Uwe Altmann
Hi Jean-Francois Am 28.01.21 um 18:40 schrieb jean-francois: > I have created an extension that creates the substitution table, as > demonstrated in Italo's blog post, here: Great idea - but the link directs to Italos post, not to your extension :-( -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Uwe Altmann --

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Crowdfunding campaign for interoperability with Microsoft® Office

2021-01-28 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2021-01-26 à 15 h 26, Italo Vignoli a écrit : > > Unfortunately LibreOffice is unable to open them without breaking their > > layout (yes, I have all the Microsoft® fonts installed and configured > > through fontconfig). > You cannot legally use C-Fonts (Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, >

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Crowdfunding campaign for interoperability with Microsoft® Office

2021-01-26 Thread Italo Vignoli
Hi Raffaele, Thanks for the message. Interoperability is definitely a topic worth of further efforts. I am adding some comments to your message, but the best option is probably to organize a chat after FOSDEM, the largest FOSS virtual event, planned for February 6/7 (too busy before). On