Openoffice Default Fonts

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:52:17PM -0400, Lukas Sabota wrote:
> 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?

Yes, this is intentional.  These fonts are used because they have metrics
compatible with industry standard fonts, so that document interchange with
the rest of the world works properly.

We use DejaVu where the metrics don't matter, because it looks better
on-screen.

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 - mdz