Sorry; I must have misread it. HTH,
Twayne` n news:4bfb6e21.80...@nb.net, John Kaufmann <kaufm...@nb.net> typed: > In a message dated 2010.05.24 19:21 -0500, Twayne wrote: > >>>>> Please remember that if you do not have the same fonts >>>>> on the different systems than the documnet may look >>>>> different as OOo will find an "appropriate" font to >>>>> replace it >>>> >>>> Do you know how that font matching works? >>> >>> No I do not. I tend to use "Bookman Old Style" on my main >>> system and find that another font is substituted on >>> systems where this font is not available. >>> >>> Sorry I can be of no further help on the font matching. >>> Someone else may be able to contribute >> >> ... Many people forget that you can specify a font >> "family" so if, say, you like Bookman Old Style, you can >> still suggest other fonts that will look OK in your >> opinion as opposed to letting browsers decide it or worse, >> use a system font instead. After your preferred font, you >> simply include the most-general of the set of fonts you >> prefer that other machines are likely to have loaded. For >> example: ... <P style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><SPAN >> style="font-family: >> Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,Sans-serif;"> </SPAN></P> ... > > (1) I suspect many people on this list are familiar are > familiar with HTML font handling, but that's a different matter from OO > making an ODF (such as ODT) document with such font > handling. > (2) The reason I about how OO does its font matching > (assuming it does so) is that I'm trying to understand it against a > reference > of how another word processor handled font matching. 20 years ago > the WordPerfect Printer Definition Language (WPDL) included > an important section on defining fonts - definitions that > were used for classifying and matching fonts. IIRC, there were seven > major binary > attributes [of which HTML's serif/san-serif, to take the > example you cite, would be only one] for classifying fonts, plus a number > of > non-binary metrics. It was a bit challenging to learn the system and apply > it > to a font - I believe every font I ever bought was > improperly defined for WPDL, and had to be redefined to work properly - > but when everything > was properly set up it worked wonderfully. I'm hoping to > find something similar for OO. > John --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
