Ubuntu's OpenOffice formatting changed from XP's OO formatting

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Tue Apr 8 12:14:42 UTC 2008


NoOp wrote:
> On 04/07/2008 05:57 PM, Joseph wrote:
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>> I used to use OO with Windows XP and formatted the odt documents as needed.
>>
>> Then when I changed to Ubuntu, and bring those OO in XP documents, the 
>> formatting has been changed.  Changes are such as:
>>       Areas where font size is altered
>>       Page formatting (margins)
>>       Text style changed from Comic Sans to New Times Roman
>>             How can I get some more interesting fonts???  Everything 
>> looks the same
>>
>>
>> I have approximately (probably more than) 1000 odt documents made with 
>> OO in XP.  It is so time consuming to make all these changes.  Seems 
>> that they were made with OO in Xp the settings should be the same with 
>> OO in Ubuntu....
>>
>> My question:   Is there a way I can set OO or Ubuntu, so that documents 
>> will maintain all the previous settings in which they were originally 
>> saved?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for all helpful replies
>>
>> Joseph
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> Install the fonts that you used in OOo XP.
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    I want to know HOW you load the fonts you find in XP. I too have 
noticed that there is a lot fewer fonts in Linux. So how do you load the 
other 25 fonts?


Karl


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