On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:54:10 +0200 Came this utterance fomulated by Johnny Rosenberg to my mailbox:
> 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. > The msttcorefonts package was originally released by Microsoft under a very liberal public domain licence. This is why it can continue to be used and distributed quite legally even though it no longer exists on the microsoft website AFAIK. Two other solutions exist - PDF as Johnny points out above, and HTML/CSS. CSS allows you to specify a list of preferred fonts in order. It is quite common for websites to use "Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif" in that order. Helvetica is a good (arguably superior) replacement to arial for screen display. It is also possible using CSS to set "Times, 'Times New Roman', 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', serif" as the font for printed documents at the same time. It is also possible to set a third set of fonts for projection of the same information. http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/font-family http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/at-media -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
