On 03/24/2013 03:45 PM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote:
Le 24/03/2013 19:55, Jason Paul Joines a écrit :
I'm using LibreOffice 4.0.1.2 on Kubuntu 12.04.2. I'm working on a
spreadsheet that I will need to send to a windows user who is not using
LibreOffice. What native Linux/LibreOffice font can I use that will
also be available on the windows system?
To complement Kieran's answer, the Liberation fonts (available as
Mono, Sans Serif, Sans Narrow and Serif) are supposed to have exactly
the same width and height of resp. CourierNew, Arial, Arial Narrow and
TimesNewRoman. Thus you may use them as they'll either be available on
the target PC or replaced with the default ones cited above.
I would make sure you have "ttf-mscorefonts" installed on your Kubuntu
system. That will give you the core Windows fontson your Kubuntu/Ubuntu
system.
Verdana, Tahoma, Georgia, and Trebuchet MS, are core fonts that seem to
be apart of most Windows systems. Add those tothe list of others.
So, you are creating a spreadsheet using LO that will be used in Excel?
I would stick with the following: Arial, Tahoma, and Georgia.
There is an art and science involved in choosing fonts, or a list of
fonts, that wouldbe a good choice to used for documents between systems
and OS types. People have even made lists of which fonts are used on
one system that would be as close as possible to other font names on
other systems.
Personally, I tend to make sure my Windows and Ubuntu systems have the
same set of fonts. If I need to share documents that are to be used and
edited by others, and I know which OS they are using, I then stick with
font names that I know they will have as one of their core fonts.
Since I currently have not installed any fonts on a new laptop, that was
not installed by Win7/Home Premium. or LO and any other package, I could
make a list of all of the installed fonts in the Win7 laptop and see if
I can highlight the ones that were installed by packages like LO and
Corel Draw, over top of the ones installed when the OS was placed onto
the laptop by Gateway.
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