Liberation or Corefonts?

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Tue, 9/14/10, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tim wrote:
> 
> > And for other things that you might have to deal with,
> such as being
> > handed a Word document.  They're designed to copy
> the metrics of the
> > Microsoft fonts (size and shape), so that documents
> will appear as
> > intended.
> 
> But that's almost completely pointless since no .doc file
> generated
> in one version of word ever renders the same way in a
> different version
> of word, so I don't know how you tell if OO is rendering it
> "right"
> (I have observed this at work when the HR department sends
> us
> word documents with forms we are supposed to print, fill
> out,
> and send back to them and every version of word we try
> makes the
> forms look even more absurd than the one before :-).

Perhaps, your employer should ditched Word and switch all departments to OO. Then there would be consistency.  ;-)

B