yellowdog-general digest, Vol 1 #1328 - 13 msgs

[Kevin B.Hendricks]

BTW

>> OpenOffice.org
>> doesn't fit the bill (surprisingly, I find that poor
>> font support, rather than forms, to be the biggest
>> issue).

OOo font use is improving significantly.  With the forthcoming OOo 
1.1.1 plus a nice new Wizard called FontOOo (that is currently in 
development), I can easily and automatically download and install the 
MS metrically compatible fonts from Sourceforge and the URW standard 35 
postscript fonts and Luxi  all by simply running the Wizard [and the 
Wizard runs cross-platform and works on MacOSX Panther under X11, Linux 
x86 ppc, Sparc, S390, FreeBSD, WIN]

What makes things even nicer, is that with my latest build of OOo 1.1.1 
for MacOSX Panther (running X11), now I get complete cross-platform 
layout of my documents and documents that get sent to me from MS Word 
using WIN users (via the MS fonts available from Sourceforge) and have 
them appear identically on my YDL 3 ppc Linux system as well).   So I 
can finally edit and change documents on all of my platforms without 
messing anything up for any of the other platforms.

You are absolutely right that good MS metrically compatible fonts are 
key to good cross-platform and mixed platform use.  That is why we 
developed the FontOOo Wizard for OOo to ease the download, unpacking 
and install of the MS fonts (Times New Roman, Arial, Courier, etc) 
available from SourceForge).  If I use that wizard just once on each of 
my platforms that runs OOo 1.1.1, I can watch the all of the layout and 
irregularities of opening strange MS Word documents go completely away!

FWIW,


Kevin
PPC Linux, MacOSX X11 Porting Team for OpenOffice.org

On Feb 28, 2004, at 11:14 AM, 
yellowdog-general-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:

> Message: 1
> From: Tim Seufert <tas@mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: YDL in Mac OS X Hints today
> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 19:23:55 -0800
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> On Feb 27, 2004, at 7:10 PM, Clinton MacDonald wrote:
>
>> I write grants for a living (we do science, too, but
>> the grants pay the bills). For this I need to be able
>> to type long diatribes into poorly designed forms,
>> while including complex diagrams and using
>> institutionally specified fonts.
> Not sure about support of forms, but have you ever tried LyX?  It's
> generally very cool for writing technical documents.
>