Re: [Fsfe-uk] New FSFE Free PDF Readers Campaign

[Jon]

Sam Tuke wrote, On 15/09/10 10:55:
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> PDF is an ISO standard for which there are several Free Software 
> implementations. As such, it is one of the better file formats for those 
> organisations to use (much better than .doc or part of an online only viewer 
> application).

Reluctantly, I find DOC far more useful than PDF, as I can edit it in 
OpenOffice.org. There are actually plenty of DOC readers like AbiWord 
and KOffice etc. (My end goal is always to get everyone to adopt ODF!)

Off this topic, but Fonts are the other issue lacking on GNU/Linux 
distros. As none will make FreeSans or Liberation font's show up as 
"Arial" and "Tahoma" etc in wordprocessor. So when I open the DOC 
files I get emailed from clients (no possibility to convince them to 
use OO), the font matching chooses some other font which has no 
resemblence, and then when I send back.. they get he same problems, as 
it now needs Liberation or FreeSans.

My company would fund development of someone to prepare an "Arial" 
font package and get it into the latest Ubuntu distro repository. This 
package just needs to contain the renamed "Liberation" font files. It 
can't be that difficult can it?

The reason I propose this development is to save everyone needing to 
install ms core fonts package (containing their Arial)

Cheers, Jon