Openoffice Default Fonts

[Lukas Sabota]

On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 07:35 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Lukas Sabota schrieb:
> > Hello,
> > Openoffice currently defaults to Nimbus fonts.  Is this intentional?  I
> > find these fonts quite ugly.  Perhaps it would be a better idea to use
> > DeJaVu Serif as the default font.  The DeJaVu fonts are the default for
> > the default Ubuntu desktop, anyway.  What are your thoughts?
> 
> - DejaVu is an "odd" font (comparing the metrics with other fonts),
>   which is optimized for the screen, not for printing. Documents printed
>   using DejaVu don't look very well.
> 
> - DejaVu is not available on other platforms by default, while Times /
>   Helvetica / Courier are (-> Nimbus). Viewing / Printing documents
>   without having this font looks very bad.
> 
Thanks!  Answered my question.

God bless,
Lukas