On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 7:33 PM, M Henri Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > observe these distortions with *all* > fonts, or do some fonts render in the same manner in both the Linux > distrubution(s) you use and in Windows versions ?
Have not checked all fonts. Mosty students work in default fonts, what ever is available to MSwindow machine or Linux. > I can't help suspecting > that what you are experiencing is less a font than a layout problem - Is that differ from font. IMHO, layout disturbs because of font size and shape. One page may become 1 page plus 2 lines on 2nd page. > when, > for example, a document is to be saved in .doc format in OOo rather than in > the default .odt format We are not converting. We are using OO on both MSwindows as well as on Linux. So in my opinion, OO while running on different architecure, should have same common font as default. On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 7:39 PM, mike scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Somewhere, there's available the standard basic set of Windows fonts, > available for download for linux etc. Stick to those, I wanted otherwise. Encouraging MSwindow user to use non-proprietary fonts, by guiding then to download from the OO site or site of that font. > Othwerwise it's really up to the user to > make sure all fonts are available everywhere they're needed. What that make difficult to promote use of OO. Once user face such problem, he/she switch back MSoffice. While we claim it give user good experience on different platform. > There is a plugin that offers to check fonts within Writer - listed > here as "testFontsJTB.oxt" - from the OOo website. Thanks for information. > Oh, and don't forget the 'options' dialogue offers font substitution > tables. O.K. On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 7:59 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMHO, the safest fonts are Times New Roman and Arial (and perhaps > Helvetica). You can get these fonts on a Linux machine easily. In > Ubuntu, the package is called msttcorefonts. Thanks. <snip> > So to see what is the root case, please verify what fonts are those > documents using. O.K. I will investigate more, and let you know. With kind regards, -- H.S.Rai http://hs.raiandrai.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
