[26342] in Athena Bugs
sun4 9.3.18: OpenOffice.org Font Inconsistency
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rocco J Pigneri)
Mon Feb 7 17:17:10 2005
Message-Id: <200502072214.j17MEO6J008511@m56-129-20.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:14:24 -0500
From: Rocco J Pigneri <rpigneri@mit.edu>
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
System name: m56-129-20.mit.edu
Type and version: Sun-Blade-100 9.3.18
Display type: ifb
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: sawfish
What were you trying to do?
Write documents in OpenOffice.org Writer and Presentation.
What's wrong:
The Sun version has the Times New Roman font but not the
Nimbus Roman font. The Linux version has Nimbus Roman but not
Times New Roman.
What should have happened:
Both fonts should be on both systems with Nimbus Roman as the
default.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
There are two reasons for this change. First, having Times
New Roman on both machines allows for easier document sharing
with Microsoft Word since most Word documents are written with
Times New Roman. Quite a few of my presentations and papers
were mangled in OOo because of this issue. Second, this makes
the use of OpenOffice.org more transparent across platforms.
A document written on a Linux box can be edited on a Sun box
without issues, but a document written on a Sun box will
appear in a state that cannot be presented to a professor.
Overall, this change will make OOo much more useful for users
of Windows and much easier to use for those of us who use only
Athena Linux since the same document can be read anywhere.
Please do not overlook this issue as cosmetic only becasuse I
believe that it greatly increases the usability for the
Windows-using members of the community. When a document is
mangled because Times New Roman is not present, it is
completely unpresentable to a professor.
