OT: Substitute fonts for msttcorefonts

[Eberhard Roloff]

Nigel Ridley wrote:
> After my nice clean install of Jaunty Beta last week I tried to install the msttcorefonts 
> package. There were always errors every time I tried.

You can also implement the "pure" ttf files, i.e. without installing 
from the repositories.

  So I decided that I would be MS free!
> 
> Wonderful! But, I need comparable fonts to use so that when sending friends, that still use 
> Windows, a document, I want them to be able to see my work as I designed it. 

This is exactly the problem. Although there are very good metrically 
equivalent fonts, you will never be able to send out _your_ design. 
Since your design largely depends on the fonts you are using and those 
are not available on the target system.

So unless you are sending your fonts to the recipient and have them 
install them, this won't work.

Of course, the ultimate solution to preserve your design and also to 
prevent any potential issues from the conversion from OpenOffice to 
MS-Office is simple:

Print out as pdf and send this. It also works for Scribus. The only 
disadvantage is that your friends will not be able to work on your 
documents, anymore (at least  not easily)


Another problem is, that with vista and office 2007. a new high quality 
MS font family was introduced to windows and Mac that does not even have 
metrically identical substitutes on Linux.

Furthermore, their license prevents using them without having a suitable 
MS Operating System.

Kind regards
Eberhard