-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: any good libreoffice/linux fonts for sharing documents with windows users From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmas...@krackedpress.com> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: 2013.03.24.Sun.16:34:33 > 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. > > > >
Thanks for the information. I may try the Liberation fonts though they don't look seem to look very nice. I use LibreOffice and Linux because they are open source. I really don't want to have anything from microsoft on my system so I'll probably avoid ttf-mscorefonts. Jason =========== -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted