[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Fonts standadization for Impress templates

[Olivier Hallot]

Hi

Thanks to Friedrich Strba, the Liberation fonts are now back in Windows...

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=06e64daff148d5a94913bfe88b0c454fb2bfb0d6

I opened a bug to store the modified files

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42328

Regards



Em 26-10-2011 17:36, Regina Henschel escreveu:
> Hi Andras,
>
> Andras Timar schrieb:
>> Hi Olivier,
>>
>> 2011/10/26 Olivier Hallot<olivier.hallot at documentfoundation.org>:
>>> Hi Andras
>>>
>>> I converted all the templates according to the following:
>>>
>>> Albany, Arial ->  Liberation Sans
>>>
>>> Thorndale, Times New Roman ->  Liberation Serif
>>>
>>> However, for some reason I can't imagine, I don't see Liberation 
>>> Sans nor
>>> Liberation Serif in my windows installation (3.4.3). I only see 
>>> Liberation
>>> Sans Narrow.
>>>
>>> Is this a bug in the Windows package?
>>>
>>
>> I think it is intentional. On Windows people have Times New Roman and
>> Arial by default, so they don't need their metrically equivalent
>> Liberation Serif and Liberation Sans.
>
> Does Windows7 still comes with Times New Roman?
>
>  It is a good question, whether
>> LibreOffice or MS Office on Windows fall back to Times New Roman when
>> the template uses Liberation Serif (and ro Arial for LibreOffice
>> Serif). They should...
>
> It depends on what fonts are installed. If Thorndale (coming from 
> StarOffice) is installed, it falls back to that.
>
> It is very difficult to identify fonts, which are designed to look 
> equal. But you can look at the question mark or at the Greek zeta to 
> distinguish them.
>
> Kind regards
> Regina

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