[odf-discuss] Re: [Noooxml] Fwd: [odfsig] MAMPU Migrates to OpenOffice.org

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Mer 19 mars 2008 12:53, Alberto Barrionuevo a écrit :
> Please, Yoon Kit,
>     take care to use the original build of OpenOffice.org. The Novell
> build
> fails a lot (I can give details). But take care that most of the Linux
> distributions use the Novell build (still).

Fedora and Red Hat dumped it quite a long time ago.

>     Also an advice (for Roman characters): stablish a set of free
> fonts to be
> used in a way that you don't get problems with the typical Microsoft
> proprietary fonts (Arial, Sans Serif, Times New Roman, etc.) The best
> are
> fonts that matches exactly the same sizes and dimensions as Microsoft
> ones.

Careful composition of the fonts pack is critical in any field test
trial. I'd deploy at least DejaVu and Liberation (Liberation for the
Arial/TNR metric compatibility, DejaVu as general-purpose font). For
documents not already dependant on Arial metrics I'd avoid Liberation
as much as possible as it's quite unclear today if its coverage will
be extended, and at what rate.

Complementary fonts would be the SIL ones, Tiresias, and Stix+GFS
fonts (when the OO.o fix their OTF support)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot