<div dir="ltr">The good old days of Geocities wouldn't have been nearly as bad if it wasn't for server chosen fonts and colors.<div><br></div><div>--Brian</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 4:46 PM, DJ-Pfulio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com" target="_blank">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">OR .... don't use page layout formats when they aren't necessary. HTML really<br>
was designed for this, yet the page layout people took it over by allowing the<br>
server to choose fonts which is a terrible idea, IMHO. Perhaps 95% of all<br>
documents produced DO NOT NEED page layout control, yet we humans waste so much<br>
time over that.<br>
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On 05/15/2015 03:22 PM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:<br>
> I've seen various versions of this design flaw over the years. When you generate<br>
> a document, do *not* make the appearance of the document depend on the vagaries<br>
> of the environment in which it is viewed. I'm familiar with a situation at a<br>
> federal agency where documents - and in fact, even correct function of the<br>
> software - depend on the version of Word installed at the end-user end, and it's<br>
> as accident-prone now as it was in 2003 when I first observed it there.<br>
><br>
> Don't. <slap> Do. <slap> That. <slap><br>
><br>
> Embed those fonts, paint in the text as bitmap, pay someone to write it in<br>
> felt-tip pen after it comes out of the printer, *anything*. :)<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On 5/14/15 8:42 AM, Mike Barnes wrote:<br>
>> We are trying to install an inhouse application which is developed on a<br>
>> windows box and then deployed on RHEL 6. The problem is that the pdf files<br>
>> look great in windows but have all sorts of spacing issues on RHEL.<br>
>><br>
>> Could someone help me understand how to install the appropriate MS Fonts. Yea<br>
>> I know it is MS but what can I say ;).<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Thanks in advance.<br>
>> Mike Barnes<br>
>><br>
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