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Liberation Fonts Increase Interoperability For Linux Users

Posted by timothy on from the yes-yes-gnu-slash-linux dept.

hweimer writes "Most problems when opening Word documents under GNU/Linux are due to missing fonts. Therefore, Red Hat published a set of fonts metric-compatible with the Windows core fonts last year. However, there were some concerns regarding the licensing that prevented many other distros to ship them. We finally managed to settle these problems, leading to better document interoperability for all GNU/Linux users."

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  1. You think you're funny by argent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well you are, OK, that was funny.

    But it's also serious.

    GOD DAMN the Word document structure sucks like something that sucks a lot.

  2. Re:This is good, but by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Define better.
    Also font making doesnt lend it self to collaboration, basically you need 100 font making drones to try their hardest and then you tell 99 of them to go home. Companies don't mind doing this but if you didn't even get paid to make your font, youd be pretty pissed when it hours of your work are ditched in favor of something with a few more curly bits.

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    IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
  3. Re:I fixed it for you by plover · · Score: 5, Insightful
    No, Word is a cruel developer-led plot to sap the output of the business analysts. By keeping their conflicting requirements tangled up in Word, and by shifting their focus to fonts and colors, it keeps them from ever actually finishing them and so inflicting them upon the hapless developers.

    By one estimation*, developers would have almost twice as many annoying requirements if business analysts were to switch to open-source word-smithing tools.

    *In his defense, the estimator was both drunk and bitter at the set of requirements he had just been handed.

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    John