On Saturday 15 October 2005 14:53, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: <snippage>
I have plenty of math expression that use greek symbols. Those are completely screwed up.
This is can be a character set issue *and* a font issue.
I do hope OO has been improved , made more compatible with MS Office in SuSE9.3.
You *do* know that OOo is independently produced, don't you? SUSE provides a Linux-based platform for OOo to run on in much the same way that M$ provides it's NT-based platforms for, say, Photoshop or Acrobat to run on. You can upgrade your OS and it will not automatically upgrade your photo editing or word processor packages, right? Same thing. In any event, I'm pretty sure the latest greatest stable version of OOo will be installed by 9.3 using the YOU update system. If I'm wrong, no doubt I'll be corrected ;-)
Sine I'vespent the whole night and 1/2 of today trying to make CrossOver install MS Office XP, following Mr.White's guidelines (he is CodeWeavers staff), and have made no progress whatsoever, I'm prone to dispose of CrossOver and five the new OO a try.
Good choice. Maybe a good first test project would chart the relationship between your typing accuracy and amount of sleep! ;-)
To this purpose I would appreciate if someone could help me figure out how to get all the infor about the page size, font type and size, symbols matrix etc ... out of PowerPoint. Then I'll try to force the same setup on OO .. assuming it's easy to do ..
If you're collaborating with others, someone should be controlling a "master" document where global settings like paper size, orientation, margins, headers and footers, fonts, graphics resolution and color pallete, etc. are locked in. As work progresses, all of your (plural) individual edits and additions are merged back into the master. Ideally, when Impress first opens such a document it should import and adhere to those settings and a) not allow you to change them, or b) give you the option to lock them down so you won't inadvertently change them. If it contains fonts that aren't available on your system, it should automatically try to use the closest matches it can find without actually changing the document settings... as a convenience, so editing can continue. But it is up to you to install the fonts you need so you can view and work (i.e. "collaborate") effectively.
Where can I download the MS fonts ?
Google is your friend. I'm not being /smart/... I'd end up doing the same thing to answer your question. It would be faster to confirm with the document 'owner' what fonts are being used, then searching specifically for those.
How shall I install on OO ? I mean how can I get OO using the downloaded fonts ?
When you find and download the fonts you need, there is a function built into KDE Control Center that lets you easily install them. Do some poking around there, it's not hard to find or use.
Is the OO coming with SuSE 9.3 the latest version or shall I upgrade it ? If this iis the case, how can I updgrade it ?
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Thank you so much.
You're welcome. regards, - Carl