HI all, I am looking for some guidance on changing my documents to the most widely compatible font
Currently i use Calibri, however i am using Collabora more & more and notice it is not in the default fonts list, so i am considering switching to either Liberation sans or serif
I assume this would be perfectly compatible between Libre office and Collabora, however can anyone confirm if it would display properly if sent to someone using MS word ?
Regards James
If you want to make sure that your document looks the same to the recipient as it does to you, send a PDF.
Hi, I do save and send important or common docs, such as CV etc in pdf format, but just wondering in case i ever send or need to send in odt format,
My main use would be editing the same document on Libre & Collabora
But may rarely send to Word user and would like to avoid any issues
That’s difficult. LibreOffice offers the option of embedding fonts. However, this makes the documents very large.
In my opinion, a font should not be chosen based on whether it could cause problems.
After all, authors usually want to use it to express their personal touch in the document.
“Arial”, “Tahoma”, “Verdana”, “Wingdings”, “Wingdings 2”, “Wingdings 3”
originally installed TrueTypes on my MacOS and WinOS
These are all Microsoft fonts that are subject to a license.
Everyone has acquired the general license for general cross-platform use with their respective operating system. Nothing additional is required. No restrictions on publication!
Except for Segoe fonts which are licensed only for Microsoft products.
The new default Microsoft font is Aptos which could be downloaded too. Curiously, the most similar open source font to Aptos that I found was Liberation Sans.
“Calibri” is the default on my winOS 11, not available for macOS “Sequoia”. Unfortunately no longer “Liberation Sans" and “Liberation Serif” like many years ago. And still “Trebuchet MS” on both.
I hate Microsoft, part of the reason i wanted off Calibri when i found out it was a Microsoft font
I ended up converting all my documents to Liberation sans and they open prefect in both Libre & Collabora
I tried to check office, but usual controlling Microsoft won’t even let you use office without an account
Do you have an official source for this? Especially for users on Linux?
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I know it is next to impossible for MS to check, if their fonts are properly licenced. But this does not imply they are some kind of freeware. MS core fonts are available in one version only (2 file formats) and can be used, but you don’t obtain a “general licence” when you use another OS.
I’d like to give a more general answer than your own solution:
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What is shown on the receiving side depends on the availability of fonts there. So one way to accomodate users of Word/MS-office is using fonts they have available. If the source is not using Windows this leads usually to the Core fonts for the web, as they are available.
If one wishes to avoid this fonts another option is to use fonts, where we have the same sizes. If the font itself is not available for the users of Word etc we can assume/hope the automatic replacement will not change the layout.
You will find the Liberation fonts in this group. A nice compilation is in the Arch-Wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Metric-compatible_fonts
I can’t confirm this! I have a virtual WinOS installed on my Mac OS machine, and the MS Office suite in WinOS. This allows me to access the MS font “Calibri” across all systems. The font file is “4491-font.ttf”. However, caution is advised, because “Calibri” contains both
The b) types cannot be displayed on Mac OS, nor in MS Office XP on WinOS.
Missing characters in a font are displayed to me as being replaced by a faint box; this has always been the case, albeit with other character blocks, for example “ß” (lowercase letter eszett) or “ẞ” (uppercase letter ESZETT), which the Swiss do not want to know.