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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 31 16:45:27 +0000 2008 ------- You're absolutely right, the Arial and Times fonts were replaced through their Nimbus equivalent, Nimbus Roman No9 L and Nimbus Sans L which have definitely very different metrics. Especially line spacing is far bigger, but the metric is overall very different. So I tried some fonts. PERFECT MATCH: Liberation Sans (and Liberation Serif for "Times") The metrics are really the same! And Red Hat's Liberation Fonts are GPL! APPROXIMATE MATCH: MgOpen Moderna & FreeSans (both have the same metric, smaller line spacing than Arial does) VERY APPROXIMATE MATCH: BitStream Vera Sans or DejaVu Sans (both have the same metric, bigger line spacing than Arial does) VERY POOR MATCH: Nimbus sans L (far bigger line spacing than Arial does) As these are all font familys, it would be great to replace the matching for Arial, Times and Mono/Courier. I would of course recommand to replace all the matching by the Liberation font family, as they are more than GPLed. (GPL + Font exception to make them even "more" free!) Are they stoppers for this idea? I hope this great problem for OOo & Linux can be solved! PS. See this small article on this topic: http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/05/09/liberation-fonts/ PPS. I'm not a Red Hat fanatic or anything, I just tried these fonts today and they seem to be a really great equivalent to MS fonts, AND a "free" solution to this problem! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
