--- En date de : Mar 25.5.10, John Kaufmann <[email protected]> a écrit :
> De: John Kaufmann <[email protected]> > Objet: Re: [users] Re: Win/Mac/Linux > À: [email protected] > Date: Mardi 25 mai 2010, 8h28 > 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 > Hi May be we should speak about the three Liberation fonts, created to have the same metric properties than the classical win fonts ? never got any problem on different O.S. when using those fonts fred juan diaz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
