[ale] Installing MS fonts

[Jim Kinney]

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On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 17:14 -0400, Brian Stanaland wrote:
> 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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