Linked by Christian Paratschek on Fri 10th Sep 2004 05:18 UTC
Before I start, let me tell you the little story, how I got the idea for writing this article. When I wrote my first article for OSNews, one of the screenshots I included showed my diploma thesis. I merely wanted to show that OpenOffice.org in Fedora Core 2 features native icons, nothing more.
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Hello skript (IP: 62.233.169.---),
Easiest way to handle your font issues is to make sure you have the same fonts installed on both your systems (win32 and Linux). The problem with any document are the fonts and the said substitution of those fonts. You can use the MS core fonts on Linux: http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
Or you can use the infamous fonts from:
1) ghostscript
1a) http://sourceforge.net/projects/gs-fonts
1b) http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get704.htm
2) gnome fonts (bit stream vera)
2a) http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
Some things to keep in mind is that MS doesnt natively handle Type 1 fonts. Why? Because they were made by Adobe. Microsoft is in competetion for the Deskstop Publishing space and they are not the biggest supporters of Type 1 fonts. So you basically need another application to read those fonts like Acrobat Reader, Ghostscript, Xpdf and so forth. However, it comes back to that age old issue of font substitution. You have 2 choices:
1) Embedding the fonts in the document (IE: pdf).
2) Use common fonts amoung the documents.
Tis a real shame, both univerises (*nix, windows, mac) all have some excellent fonts. I just wish there could a little more co-operation on a font base. Am I saying eveyone use free fonts? No. Each company should use their own equivalent font (Arial, Times and so forth). But that wouldnt still be a perfect mix for various differnces between the fonts themselves (arial windos vs arial mac vs arial linux). Ok, I am just complaining way too much, it just wont happen due to licenses, font differences and ideaology. Stick to option 1 or 2 in the above section and you will be fine.