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You're right on both counts, of course. That was the point of demo'ing
that file to her in three different versions of MS Word. Like I said,
she got real quiet, real fast.<br>
<br>
As to your point about PDF's, I've seen that issue, too, especially
when someone uses Arial Black. Cisco used to be notorious for doing
this kind of thing. That's why, whenever I make a PDF, I go ahead and
embed the typeface whenever possible.<br>
<br>
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Daniel Bodanske wrote:
<blockquote
cite="midac9673bf0707091809i491adaefw6f1f858b49f72c42@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Anyone who gets finicky about the layout of something in
Word is being
<br>
silly, and I'll be happy to explain to them why they are. Word is not
<br>
a typesetting or desktop publishing program.
<br>
<br>
A real issue, though is how these equivalent fonts affect PDFs, which
<br>
should display exactly the same everywhere. If the font is embedded,
<br>
there is never a problem, but I have seen PDFs where the default Sans
<br>
font is not the same on different computers, and the layout of the PDF
<br>
got screwed up with letters overlapping or improperly kerned (is that
<br>
the correct term?).
<br>
<br>
Dan
<br>
<br>
On 7/10/07, "Terrell Prudé Jr." <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:microman@cmosnetworks.com"><microman@cmosnetworks.com></a>
wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite"><br>
I use and like them as well. They are indeed close, but not quite
exact.
<br>
I actually had someone comment to me about the "different look" of a
<br>
document that I had sent them that used Liberation (I use
OpenOffice.org).
<br>
They looked at it in Times New Roman--on MS Word, naturally--and
actually
<br>
complained! Reason? The ends of the paragraphs didn't fall exactly in
the
<br>
same places (my printout vs. her screen display). They were close, but
not
<br>
exactly the same.
<br>
<br>
Therefore, I decided on a little test. I then viewed the same
document
<br>
again in OpenOffice.org, changing everything from Liberation to Times
New
<br>
Roman, and sure enough, the paragraphs ended in OpenOffice.org exactly
where
<br>
they did in my colleague's MS Word 2003. She seemed to have a valid
point
<br>
at first.
<br>
<br>
OK, let's continue testing, I thought. I fired up a Windows box w/ MS
Word
<br>
XP, followed later with MS Word 2000, and viewed the same document in
each,
<br>
using Times New Roman. Guess what? The paragraphs didn't land exactly
<br>
where they had in MS Word 2003! Furthermore, Word XP and Word 2000 had
the
<br>
paragraphs ending in slightly different places. So, I said to my MS
<br>
Word-using colleague, "so how do you deal with this with your Word
XP-using
<br>
boss?" My colleague then got quiet.
<br>
<br>
The test showed me two things. First, OpenOffice.org 2.x is so
compatible
<br>
with MS Word 2003 that at times it even beats MS Word XP and 2000 (I
didn't
<br>
bother trying Word 97). Second, using the Liberation typefaces doesn't
<br>
produce any layout changes greater than switching between different
versions
<br>
of Microsoft Word. A whole lot of businesses and schools continue to
use MS
<br>
Office 2000/XP, so this point is relevant.
<br>
<br>
Conclusion: the Liberation typefaces are certainly good enough to
replace
<br>
Times New Roman. Further, they are Free as in Freedom. I absolutely
will
<br>
continue to use them.
<br>
<br>
I believe that we should continue to make the msttcorefonts available,
if
<br>
only to continue to serve notice to Microsoft: WE WILL EXERCISE OUR
RIGHTS.
<br>
It's much like why USA warships would sail periodically in the Black
Sea
<br>
during the Cold War as a notice to the Soviet Union. However, we
should
<br>
also certainly pre-load Liberation and furthermore make it the default
<br>
typeface. If someone wants to choose the msttcorefonts, then they
still
<br>
can, but with Liberation, they don't have to anymore.
<br>
<br>
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Nadav Kavalerchik wrote:
<br>
i second that :-)
<br>
<br>
i use them too, and they are great!
<br>
i also set the Font Replacement Table in OpenOffice to replace the
<br>
corresponding MS fonts with these fonts according to their fonts
families.
<br>
it can be patched globally by editing the file:
<br>
/{where OO is
<br>
installed}/openoffice.org2/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Common.xcu
<br>
where the "Font Replacement Table" setting are stored.
<br>
<br>
i'm attaching it.
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 7/8/07, Nils Breunese <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nils@breun.nl"><nils@breun.nl></a> wrote:
<br>
> Hello,
<br>
>
<br>
> I recently installed K12LTSP 5EL and notice that the 'Get Fonts'
<br>
> launcher in 'Install additional software' builds and installs
<br>
> msttcorefonts. Red Hat has recently released the liberation-fonts
<br>
> package, which contains GPL substitutes for Microsoft's fonts.
<br>
>
<br>
> The press release says: "There are three sets: Sans (a substitute
for
<br>
> Arial, Albany, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, and Bitstream Vera Sans),
<br>
> Serif (a substitute for Times New Roman, Thorndale, Nimbus Roman,
and
<br>
> Bitstream Vera Serif) and Mono (a substitute for Courier New,
<br>
> Cumberland, Courier, Nimbus Mono L, and Bitstream Vera Sans
Mono)."
<br>
>
<br>
> I've installed the liberation-fonts package on K12LTSP 5EL and it
<br>
> works great. Shouldn't the script install these fonts instead?
<br>
>
<br>
> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/">< https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ ></a>
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