[Gllug] Fonts in openoffice Writer

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:52:39PM +0100, Ben Whyte wrote:
> I am a little confused and would appreciate any help that people can 
> give me.  When I open, openoffice writer on my machine I dont have the 
> fonts I would expect to see such as Arial and Times New Roman.

Both of the typefaces you mention are proprietary - owned (or rather,
bought) by Microsoft.

Red Hat have recently released metric-compatible equivalents to these
fonts which you may use freely (under GPL) instead.  See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts
https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/

Rich.

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