New documents using proprietary fonts are trickier. Just substituting the view and print on your side makes interoperability much more easy. Using a substitution while viewing and printing, but not changing the font name in a document you receive, edit and send (back), is advisable, too: If you would exchange the font names (which can easily be done, for sure), the person you send the edited copy back will be in need of the fonts you exchanged their fonts to. Their astonishingly similar look can be visibly compared. The substitute fonts are not exactly the same as the proprietary ones - that would have meant Google just copied and renamed them, which is not the case.īut to not break the layout of a page coming from MS Office, these fonts are well suited, because they are metric-compatible, meaning each letter will use up the exact same space as in the original fonts. Try reloading your browser or quitting and restarting your word processor to see if it worked. Once installed, all applications should automatically start making the proper substitutions for you. # apt-get install fonts-crosextra-carlito fonts-crosextra-caladeaįor sure you may also use your favourite package manager to install the two packages fonts-crosextra-carlito and fonts-crosextra-caladea. To install them, issue these commands as root in a shell: # apt-get update These two fonts are licensed under OFL 1.1 and available from Debian Jessie onwards.

We are not allowed to copy those fonts over to non-Windows systems, hence a substitute had to be found.įortunately, Google ran into the very same problem while deploying their ChromeOS, and they developed two fonts that are of equal size, namely Carlito and Caladea. The fonts in question are Calibri and Cambria.

MS Office in recent versions comes with two commonly used fonts, which are set as default and cannot be used on computers not running the Windows operating system.

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