I used to work on Excel spreadsheets (version 4) on Macintosh system 7. I was able to bring them over to Windows (3.1) as long as the font names matched. I had Helvetica, Times and Courier. I'm not sure Ariel or Veranda existed yet.
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com>wrote: > This point about being able to find fonts that are "both close to what I > use and likely to be on Windows or Apple" a really good one. Sometimes > it's really hard to do that, though..., except, here's a really nice > tool for the task--that actually organises fonts by *what they look like* > (so similar-*looking* fonts are clustered together, rather than > similarly-*named* fonts being grouped together as in most font-selectors): > > "FontClustr - Automated Hierarchical Clustering of Fonts > Based on Their Appearance" > > http://tinylittlelife.org/?p=233 > > > It's written in Python, and the code is available on Github: > > http://tinylittlelife.org/?page_id=255 > > > "James A. Kuzdrall" <gnh...@intrel.com> writes: > > > > On Sunday 09 June 2013 11:03:33 Jerry Feldman wrote: > > > I work for IBM, and use Symphony at work, but Symphony is based on > > > OpenOffice. I have nothing against using Symphony, OpenOffice, or > > > LibreOffice but my posts in HTML just end up looking terrible when I > > > post them to Boston User Groups. They look OK in Symphony/OpenOffice or > > > LibreOffice writer. > > > > Could it be the fault of the fonts that the HTML browser substitutes > for > > the ones you use in LibreOffice? I am using "Quanta +" 3.4 (only > because it > > came with SuSE 9.3 and I am not a very good explorer - actually, > > interactively seeing what is produced is very handy). I make sure the > > alternate font list includes those that are both close to what I use and > > likely to be on Windows or Apple. > > -- > "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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