Thanks! I was using what I thought were common fonts, but I see the problem now. The main culrpit would appear to be the Open Symbol font, btw.
Thanks again, -eduardo On 1/16/07, Andy Pepperdine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 15 January 2007 23:09, eduardo sontag wrote: > I want to use my laptop winXP to display an impress presentation which was > created in linux (fedora 6). > > However, many of the fonts are corrupted, arrows point backward, etc., > especially in slide-show mode (totally messed up), though also having > problems (missing fonts) in non-slide show mode. > > I did not install any special fonts - I *thought* that I was using whatever > came with oo - but obviously the win version doesn't know AIUI no fonts come with OOo, it uses what is supplied with the operating system. There is a wizard to download more fonts which can be used for OOo alone. You will have to select a font which is known to both systems. The font wizard (File -> Wizards -> Install fonts) can download some free MS fonts (like Arial) onto Linux for OOo's use. > > Note: works ok to export to pdf (not ppt). But that sort of misses the > point (no special effects, no chance to fix things..) > > Another note: line breaks also changed, especially on bold fonts, which > look bigger now. > > THANKS! > PS: Using 2.1 in winXP (just downloaded). I believe that the oo used in > linux was 2.0 (downloaded mid 2006) -- Andy Pepperdine On this mailing list help is provided by volunteers. Please subscribe to the mailing list to see all the replies to a query, and reply only to the mailing list. For FAQ, userguide, see: http://documentation.openoffice.org/
