msttcorefonts

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Apr 25 16:15:00 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 21:35 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> >> Refer https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ for a alternative that is 
> >> installed by default in Fedora.
> > 
> > It doesn't say if the Liberation fonts have the exact same metrics as
> > those they replace. Without that, they are not 100% substitutes. It is
> > sometimes necessary to use the MS fonts for correct printing.
> 
> Try it. Same metrics is the whole point of that font.

Trying it is not really an answer, as it will be informative if it
doesn't work on some doc (testing can show the presence of bugs, not
their absence, etc. etc.). If the point is to have the same metrics, the
publicity should say so explicitly.

Thanks anyway.

poc




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