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Generally nobody should exchange Office docs anyway, I find it much more professional to exchange PDFs. I use MS arial so my PDFs made with LibreOffice look imm
by edg5000 1y ago
Generally nobody should exchange Office docs anyway, I find it much more professional to exchange PDFs. I use MS arial so my PDFs made with LibreOffice look immaculate on any device. I think people are really shit for being so attached to their stupid office. I could not sell my dad on LibreOffice though. He'd rather pay 100 EUR/yr than learn to use new software.
- iamtedd 1y ago*immaculate on any device that has Arial, unless your PDF conforms to PDF/A. Linux machines don't normally include Arial due to the license, and only PDF/A includes the fonts used in the document.
- cl3misch 1y agonit: normal PDFs may embed fonts, but PDF/A must embed them, and PDF/A is not the default in most programs. In practice however most programs seem to include fonts in exported PDFs?
- edg5000 1y agoBy default an Arial clone is present, ideally Arial is specified as a valid replacement font in the PDF if the user does not have the Arial clone present (Arial itself is a clone, but that is another story). It would require deeper investigation to see if this is actually the case. I've always wondered about this. PDF/A has given me all kinds of issues (windows users get incorrect glyp placement with very bad results). Regular PDF has worked fine for me.
- heavyset_go 1y agoIdeally they wouldn't, but they do, so you have to meet them where they're at, which is Office.