So I guess you are running OpenOffice.org on some GNU/Linux distro? Which one?
If you have Ubuntu (and I think this this applies to many other distros as well), Times New Roman is not installed by default, probably since it's not a free font, or something like that. You can install it from one of the repos by opening Synaptic and search for msttcorefonts (MicroSoft TrueType CORE FONTS). This package contains some of the most common Microsoft True Type fonts, like Arial, Times New Roman, Tahoma, Courier New, Comic Sans etc. Note that Arial Narrow is NOT available, for instance. Personally I avoid those fonts as much as possible. I did some testings and found that Free Sans looks a lot more like Arial than DejaVu Sans. The latter have wider characters, but Free Sans seems to be exactly yhe same width as Arial, EXCEPT for numbers (and maybe other non alphabetical characters). Free Serif should be pretty compatible to Times New Roman and Free mono could perharps replace Courier New. Anyway, if a font is missing and the original document was created with it, the font listbox will still display that fonts name, but another font is selected, hopefully a similar font. Johnny Rosenberg 2009/9/6 Linda L. Hull <chalced...@riffle.be>: > I opened a Writer document, from a bash prompt, of a text file made in vi(m): > ~$ soffice -writer 2009-09-05myfilename1.txt > > In Open Office, I did Save As and made it 2009-09-05myfilename1.doc . > > And started to change the font from 'Deja vu Sans Mono' to Times New Roman, > with select all, new font - BUT there IS no Times New Roman? > > I said ok, let's see what happened to my OO .. and opened another OO Writer. > > This one said "Times New Roman" right at the top, so I pasted my text into it > from the other Writer. > > And POOF!! There is now NO Times New Roman! > > This isn't usual! I don't think it usually sees my text as 'Deja vu Sans > Mono', usually something else. I do have 'Nimbus Roman No9 L' but . . what > happened? > > Is it me? Is it Vi(m) is it Bash? > > I do a lot of writing in vi(m) because of it's nice black background and > wonderful editing characteristics. What to do about opening files in Writer? > > Linda > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
