2008/10/4 H. S. Rai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is there some way to prepare documents and presentations which look > same across various platforms? > > I suggested my students to use OpenOffice on Linux in order to avoid > proprietary fonts. But when we open files on MSwindows, they show > disturbed layout. > > Is it not OO have same (may be some) common fonts on all platforms? > > Is it not possible, OO give warning about missing font and guide user > to download font? > > I will feel obliged, if get tip to prepare documents and presentation > using OO, that look same on different platforms without exporting it > to pdf. > > Thanks in advance.
Someone suggested msttcorefonts, but you said that you wanted to avoid proprietary fonts. Then one solution could be to just copy the Linux fonts to your Windows computer… (but that will only give YOU compatibility, of course). Unfortunately ODF files don't support embedded fonts (as far as I know), but PDF does, so exporting to PDF could be a solution if no further editing is needed. If nothing of the above works for you, msttcorefonts seems to be the only solution. Note however, that some fonts, like Arial Narrow, are missing in the msttcorefonts package. It is however possible, in Writer, to make fonts narrower, making it possible to make Arial look quite similar to Arial Narrow, making the Arial Narrow font quite redundant… J.R. > > > -- > H.S.Rai > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
