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