[kubuntu] Missing ttf-liberation causes wrong font metrics - Same File Two Machines, Different Look

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This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you test if it still occurs on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)?

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Now the original looks bad on mine as well -- I'm upgraded to Lucid so I'm not really sure how to test it at this point

I don't think there really as any bug here to be fixed, unless there is a better font that should be substituted on your system. It appears the problem with these two documents is due to the fonts you have on your systems.

The original document was written in 'Courier New' but you do not have it installed so instead of just not rendering it on your screen at all OOo had to substitute the fonts with as close as was available.

Your PDF has the following fonts embedded:

NimbusMonL-Bold
NimbusMonL-Regu
NimbusRomNo9L-Regu
NimbusMonL-ReguObli
DejaVuSans-Bold

Her PDF has the following fonts embedded:

CourierNewPS-BoldMT
CourierNewPSMT
LiberationSerif
CourierNewPS-ItalicMT

My system has the same fonts as her system so Original.doc ends up looking the same as her PDF on my system.

On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid) running off CD it uses these fonts for the PDF, and looks at least very similar to her and my pdf's:

LiberationMono-Bold
LiberationMono
LiberationSerif
LiberationMono-Italic
DejaVuSans-Bold

It may have been in the past that /etc/fonts had bad mappings for Courier New to use Nimbus Mono L instead of Liberation Mono or maybe the Liberation fonts weren't installed by default which could cause it to map as follows (I think) Courier New -> Courier -> Nimbus Mono L

Oh and also note the way it looks on systems other than your own is also the way it looks in Office 2010, I just verified it, which is most likely correct being as its a doc file to begin with. :-)

Thank you much, I feel like an idiot for not checking that. I don't know why she would have courier new and I wouldn't though....that's a strange one but I'll look into it myself. Thanks again for explaining it and not pointing out that I should have noticed it to begin with...

I'm still having formatting issues between MS Office and OOo, should I start a new report or post my issues here? I'll look into the font issue closer

Have you guys seen that there are major issues with the new MS Office margins/footers and OOo system?

Jmadero,

If you have the time and patience to do it, it would be helpful if you would use the official upstream openoffice.org packages and report bugs directly to their bug tracker for file compatibility issues. That would take the middle man out of the equation and insure the bugs get fixed as quickly as possible. :-) I'm pretty sure that there are very many compatibility issues still and they probably wouldn't mind simple test case files for the various issues if they aren't already filed in their bugtracker. If you happen to have a windows machine just using the official OOo on that machine, so you don't lose the integration patches on Ubuntu, would also be suitable to file bug reports on the upstream bugtracker. They don't want bugs filed on their bugtracker using our Ubuntu packages though since we make changes and can sometimes cause the problems with our own packaging.

http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi

Thanks,

Chris