On Tue, 6 May 2008 19:41:59 +0200
Clayton wrote:

> > Yes, I certainly have msttcorefonts. One problem about the
> > official OO release is that it isn't 64 bit, and I don't want to
> > have to fiddle around trying to install it (and indeed the
> > necessary java).
>
> It's coming:
> http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/openoffice_org_builds_for_linux

Great. Thanks. That's very interesting. I'll look out for it.

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Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote:
> R Kimber wrote:
>
>> What alternatives to OpenOffice do people use for a word processor?
>>
>> I'm struggling with OO. Since the 8.04 upgrade arial won't appear as
>> arial and saved arial documents come up with a bizarre-looking font
>> called Albany, which isn't anything like Albany on the font websites
>> and which doesn't seem to exist on my machine under that name.
>>
>> Also, OO wouldn't correctly print a saved letter that had an anchored
>> table imported from the OO spreadsheet. Only the first cell of the
>> table was printed.
>>
>> I tried re-installing, and that did fix other issues that I had.
>>
>> So, I'm looking for a word processor that "just works" [TM] :-)
>> What do people use?
>>
>> - Richard
>>
>>
>
> AbiWord and KWord for any RTF documents at home.
>
> However, I use OpenOffice.org at work all the time, with msttcorefonts
> installed. And I do so in a total Microsoft shop. That is, I'm always
> sending/receiving MS Word-formatted docs to all my MS Office
> XP/2003-using colleagues, and they don't know the difference. It works
> great.
>
> Yes, I use the OpenOffice.org that comes with the distro, and I've been
> doing so since Hoary Hedgehog. The only time I've ever had a document
> look "ugly" when using Arial or Times New Roman is when I *thought* I
> had msttcorefonts installed...but didn't. You might want to verify that
> one more time.
>
> --TP
>
>
Hello guys, I am using Open Office version 2.3 and I do have the
microsoft fonts and am on Ubuntu 7.10 and it seems to be just great. Not
sure the font will show but the bit below is Arial font:


It can't be done in the Thunderbird mail client. But anyway it does sure
look to like Arial :-)


Please send us the version of Open Office your using. Like the other guy
says he can match any font the guys using Word use.

I am long retired but liked to make Power Point charts to display my
companies things and they would use a Linux font not like anything on
Windows. Later I would be asked "where did you get that font?"

Karl





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R Kimber wrote:
> On Tue, 06 May 2008 10:34:56 -0400
> Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote:
>
>
>> R Kimber wrote:
>>
>>> What alternatives to OpenOffice do people use for a word processor?
>>>
>>> I'm struggling with OO. Since the 8.04 upgrade arial won't appear
>>> as arial and saved arial documents come up with a bizarre-looking
>>> font called Albany, which isn't anything like Albany on the font
>>> websites and which doesn't seem to exist on my machine under that
>>> name.
>>>
>>> Also, OO wouldn't correctly print a saved letter that had an
>>> anchored table imported from the OO spreadsheet. Only the first
>>> cell of the table was printed.
>>>
>>> I tried re-installing, and that did fix other issues that I had.
>>>
>>> So, I'm looking for a word processor that "just works" [TM] :-)
>>> What do people use?
>>>
>>> - Richard
>>>
>>>
>> AbiWord and KWord for any RTF documents at home.
>>
>> However, I use OpenOffice.org at work all the time, with msttcorefonts
>> installed. And I do so in a total Microsoft shop. That is, I'm
>> always sending/receiving MS Word-formatted docs to all my MS Office
>> XP/2003-using colleagues, and they don't know the difference. It
>> works great.
>>
>> Yes, I use the OpenOffice.org that comes with the distro, and I've
>> been doing so since Hoary Hedgehog. The only time I've ever had a
>> document look "ugly" when using Arial or Times New Roman is when I
>> *thought* I had msttcorefonts installed...but didn't. You might want
>> to verify that one more time.
>>
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll try Abiword and Kword.
>
> Yes, I certainly have msttcorefonts. One problem about the official OO
> release is that it isn't 64 bit, and I don't want to have to fiddle
> around trying to install it (and indeed the necessary java).
>
> - Richard
>
Java loading is a 5 minute task. If you have all the fonts your set.
What version of OO are you having trouble with?

Karl


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On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:13 AM, R Kimber <rkimber@ntlworld.com> wrote:

What alternatives to OpenOffice do people use for a word processor?

I'm struggling with OO. *Since the 8.04 upgrade arial won't appear as

arial and saved arial documents come up with a bizarre-looking font
called Albany, which isn't anything like Albany on the font websites
and which doesn't seem to exist on my machine under that name.


Also, OO wouldn't correctly print a saved letter that had an anchored
table imported from the OO spreadsheet. *Only the first cell of the
table was printed.

I tried re-installing, and that did fix other issues that I had.


So, I'm looking for a word processor that "just works" [TM] * :-)
What do people use?

- Richard

well, i believe you can use winedoors to install windows fonts (arial for example). but if you want some alternatives here are some off the top of my head:
-ABI Word
-Koffice
-M$ office (via wine)
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