In a message dated 2010.05.24 19:21 -0500, Twayne wrote:
Please remember that if you do not have the same fonts on
the different systems than the documnet may look
different as OOo will find an "appropriate" font to
replace it
Do you know how that font matching works?
No I do not. I tend to use "Bookman Old Style" on my main
system and find that another font is substituted on systems
where this font is not available.
Sorry I can be of no further help on the font matching.
Someone else may be able to contribute
... Many people forget that you can specify a font "family" so if,
say, you like Bookman Old Style, you can still suggest other fonts
that will look OK in your opinion as opposed to letting browsers
decide it or worse, use a system font instead. After your preferred
font, you simply include the most-general of the set of fonts you
prefer that other machines are likely to have loaded. For example:
...
<P style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><SPAN style="font-family:
Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,Sans-serif;"> </SPAN></P>
...
(1) I suspect many people on this list are familiar are familiar with
HTML font handling, but that's a different matter from OO making an ODF
(such as ODT) document with such font handling.
(2) The reason I about how OO does its font matching (assuming it does
so) is that I'm trying to understand it against a reference of how
another word processor handled font matching. 20 years ago the
WordPerfect Printer Definition Language (WPDL) included an important
section on defining fonts - definitions that were used for classifying
and matching fonts. IIRC, there were seven major binary attributes [of
which HTML's serif/san-serif, to take the example you cite, would be
only one] for classifying fonts, plus a number of non-binary metrics.
It was a bit challenging to learn the system and apply it to a font - I
believe every font I ever bought was improperly defined for WPDL, and
had to be redefined to work properly - but when everything was properly
set up it worked wonderfully. I'm hoping to find something similar for OO.
John
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