2008/2/20, Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:59:20 -0800 (PST) > Liviu Manolache(pr.) wrote: > > > Good day! > > My name is Liviu Manolache and I just installed > > OpenOffice 2.3.1. I have a problem regarding free TTF > > fonts. > > It seemed that some on free TTF fonts have a > > diffenrent look on web pages, Microsoft Word/Excel and > > OpenOffice Writer ( ex: A cut above the rest.ttf ; A > > to Z.ttf; etc). > > > Fonts on web pages are dependant on the fonts installed on the end users > computer. Unless you run round the 500 million or so computers out there > and install the fonts you want it would pay to stick to the common ones. > > Similarly a font in a document when transfered to snother computer > relies on the fonts as used on the other computer. > > The best solution if you want to share a document looking exactly as > written is to export it as PDF which embeds the fonts into the document. > This has an overhead in size of the document which can make PDFs > incredibly slow to download on dialup. > > > > Can you tell me where I can find free TTF fonts > > that looks the same in Microsoft Word/Excel and > > OpenOffice (Writer, Spreadsheet, etc)? > > > > > Free fonts have a catch in that very often only the bare necessities are > included. Capitals, lower case and numbers with minimal punctuation. > Seldom do they include accented letters and sometime they do not even > include lower case. >
Yes, that's very annoying. I have also noticed that fonts like Arial (at least those included in the MSTTCOREFONTS package) doesn't seem to include the right UTF-8 characters, even if most of them seems to be right, according to the UTF-8 standard. I couldn't use it for that reason, so I now use DejaVu Sans instead. I can even make it look quite much like Arial by experimenting with some character settings to make each character a bit wider and decreasing the distance between them. Styles are very useful in that case… J.R.
