Re: [Hampshire] OpenOffice & MS fonts...

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Author: John Cooper
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To: lug, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] OpenOffice & MS fonts...
On 18/10/10 22:28, Vic wrote:
>
>> If you can open the document in OOo, could you export as a .pdf...
>
> No, I can't.
>
> This place has a whole load of MS-Office files. I'm trying to convert them
> to OpenOffice. They're not technically-gifted, so any variation from what
> they do in MS-Office is a show-stopper.
>
> On Office, they open the file and press the "print" button. In OOo, this
> isn't currently working :-(
>
>> In what way is the source document locked?
>
> In that the users will not jump through hoops to adopt new software - if
> it doesn't work in the way they're used to, they won't use it. So far OOo
> isn't doing as well as I'd hoped...
>
> Vic.


Vic, I've just installed msttcorefonts in Fedora 13 (chkfontpath is also
needed but no longer in the repo as xfs is no longer used).

Can you send me an example?

I take you mean they cannot open and print the document because it is
nolonger formated correctly to print on the whole page.

John.

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