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Subject: Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] (1)(f) and (1)(g) -- audience and workinglanguage
- From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com
- To: Shawn <sgrover@open2space.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:54:51 -0400
Shawn <sgrover@open2space.com> wrote on 06/12/2008
04:47:34 AM:
>
> My question is how do we address the "interoperability"
issue with
> regards to presentation, if we cannot guarantee the same fonts will
be
> available. Do we make that a condition of testing - all tested
> platforms have the testing font available? But does that become
a
> meaningless test for an end user who encounters this but is not aware
of
> the issue? After all the document will look different, so the
> "interoperability" test will be a failure for that user.
(as a
> tech/developer, I see obvious answers here - i.e. install the font.
But
> to the general public/end user, this may not be so obvious.)
>
Maybe any test case would be written to use a freely-available
font, like RedHat's Liberation: https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/
But you are correct, that we can only control the
parameters of our defined test environment. We can't control what
the end-user runs with, and that may impact interoperability.
One deliverable I've proposed is a report "Authoring
Portable Documents: How to maximize interoperability with ODF", which
would be targeted to end-users. This could certainly contain a statement
about the effect fonts have on portability.
-Rob
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