Liberation fonts - was Re: [Fsfe-uk] Accountants need MS file formats - was Re: Mac OS X refund

[Jon Grant]

Hi,

Dave Crossland wrote on 21/01/08 21:17:
> On 21/01/2008, Jon Grant <address@hidden> wrote:
> > when I need to email an XLS or DOC to
> > someone it arrives and the Bitstream Vera Sans comes out as some
> > horrid "Comic Sans MS" font, so I get lots of queries about that.
> >
> > Eventually because of these failings of OpenOffice I'm reluctantly
> > forced to install the MS fonts too
>
> Red Hat solved this with the Liberation fonts that have "metric
> compatibility" with Arial and Times New Roman.

This is great news! I've not heard of these Liberation fonts. The 
question has to be if OpenOffice will support exporting Liberation -> MS 
font names. As OO doesn't manage to export "URW Gothic L" (which looks 
like Tahoma) as MS's Tahoma, just comes out in some Comic font.

Hope the Liberation fonts get added to Ubuntu soon.. although they 
strike me as being similar to "Bitstream Vera Sans" that I use at the 
moment on Kubuntu.

Kind regards, Jon