The difference in fonts

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RoryOF
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Re: the difference in fonts

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Fonts are not embedded in an OO document. If the document was prepared on another computer, the chances are that the correct fonts are not installed on your current computer/.
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Re: the difference in fonts

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Remember that the font displayed in the document's Font selection box is the font the document is calling for at the cursor position. This may not be the font being used to display or print the document because, if you do not have the font being called for installed on your PC, Windows (or other operating system) will silently substitute an alternative, available font without telling you. This will almost certainly cause different line spills and page spills.

The Testfonts add-on is invaluable to check which fonts are being called for in a document, and which are missing and have therefore been substituted. Note that some fonts do not have a font file for, say, Italic; and in that case, when Italic is called for, Windows itself applies a slant to the font to simulate Italic.

You can check which font is being used to display text by highlighting the text and Format > Character > Font ...

see Item 3 in See [Tutorial] Differences between Writer and MS Word files.

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