[ale] Installing MS fonts

[Brian Stanaland]

The good old days of Geocities wouldn't have been nearly as bad if it
wasn't for server chosen fonts and colors.

--Brian

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 4:46 PM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> OR .... don't use page layout formats when they aren't necessary.  HTML
> really
> was designed for this, yet the page layout people took it over by allowing
> the
> server to choose fonts which is a terrible idea, IMHO.  Perhaps 95% of all
> documents produced DO NOT NEED page layout control, yet we humans waste so
> much
> time over that.
>
> On 05/15/2015 03:22 PM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > I've seen various versions of this design flaw over the years. When you
> generate
> > a document, do *not* make the appearance of the document depend on the
> vagaries
> > of the environment in which it is viewed. I'm familiar with a situation
> at a
> > federal agency where documents - and in fact, even correct function of
> the
> > software - depend on the version of Word installed at the end-user end,
> and it's
> > as accident-prone now as it was in 2003 when I first observed it there.
> >
> > Don't. <slap> Do. <slap> That. <slap>
> >
> > Embed those fonts, paint in the text as bitmap, pay someone to write it
> in
> > felt-tip pen after it comes out of the printer, *anything*. :)
> >
> >
> >
> > On 5/14/15 8:42 AM, Mike Barnes wrote:
> >> We are trying to install an inhouse application which is developed on a
> >> windows box and then deployed on RHEL 6. The problem is that the pdf
> files
> >> look great in windows but have all sorts of spacing issues on RHEL.
> >>
> >> Could someone help me understand how to install the appropriate MS
> Fonts. Yea
> >> I know it is MS but what can I say ;).
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >> Mike Barnes
> >>
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