Milan pisze:
Almost a year ago, I reported an issue [1] that appeared in OO.o Witer in Feisty: the default font is set to "Times", which does not exist and actually acts as an alias for the former default "Nimbus Roman No 9 L" (this does not affect users that upgraded from Edgy and older).The problem is, people believe this font exists, but they cannot choose it from the fonts list when they want to use it. This is misleading and does not help to become familiar with Ubuntu's own and good fonts. This was introduced by a patch: openoffice.org (2.2.0-0ubuntu1) feisty * Use Times/Helvetica as the default font for writer documents (calc and impress still pick up the DejaVu screen font). by Matthias Klose (who does great work apart from that) on Thu, 29 Mar 2007. Debian does not use it, nor AFAIK does Fedora. I could not get more explanation of the rationale of this decision. OO.o automatically chooses the right font according to what is installed, so there's no need for hardcoding an alias. Substitution is only needed for e.g. "Times New Roman", and can be nicely used with the Liberation Fonts, but it is not needed for the default font. So I raise this point here hoping that some developers can explain/debate on this better (Matthias, more information?) since a bug report is not ideal for that. Cheers 1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/105906
I filed related bug some time ago: openoffice uses proprietary (non-free) fonts by default
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/160988 Shouldn't Ubuntu recommend free fonts by default? -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki <<>> Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ###
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