New Times Roman for OpenOffice?

Question

I just bought a new laptop, a small Acer laptop with Linux. I'm just wondering... is there any way to download New Times Roman font for Open Office? I bought the laptop mostly for word processing, and Times New Roman is the only acceptible font for manuscripts. Help!

Answer 1

Are you really suggesting that people who don’t use Times New Roman much are not typing acceptably? You are very wrong.

On the Macintosh, for example, people generally use an Adobe Times font instead, because that is what comes with the system. You would have to look extremely hard to tell the difference.

Others use Garamond by preference, or a Baskerville font or even Arial or Courier or any other type style that they happen to like, perhaps DejaVu Serif.

See http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/ti... for a number of different Times fonts.

But if you want Times New Roman or a similar font for some reason, a version of Microsoft Times New Roman is available as part of the Microsoft Core Webfonts. Though this version of Times New Roman does not have nearly as many special characters as the current Windows Vista version it will do for most purposes. See http://www.quesator.com/installingfonts.... and  tp://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p... and http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ .

See http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/05/09/l... for a more recent free Times substitute. And see also http://www.linux.com/feature/56565 .

You can also download a free Nimbus version of Times through OpenOffice.org Writer menu though File → Wizards → Install fonts from the web.... But Linux users often seem to complain about this version.

See also http://mondaybynoon.com/2007/04/02/linux... .

Note that OpenOffice.org Writer provides no way of embedding fonts in documents. If the receiver of the document doesn’t have a font of exactly the same name, the system will substitute a font it thinks may be close. The OpenOffice.org user can set up a font substitution table in Tools → Options → OpenOffice.org → Fonts if you tell the user. The same goes with Microsoft Word, if you are sending the user a .doc files created with OpenOffice.org.

If you export your file as a PDF, then the PDF file will normally contain the fonts you use embedded inside it. Otherwise, what the reader sees will depend on the fonts he or she has installed, font substitutions prescribed by the operating system, and font substitution prescribed by the OpenOffice.org font substitution table.

For your own use, perhaps this best thing to do if you prefer some other version of Times to the Core Fonts Times New Roman, is to still use the name Times New Roman as your font name, but tell OpenOffice.org to use the other font via the font substitution table.

Answer 2

That's strange, I'm surprised it doesn't come with Times New Roman since it's one of the most common. What font faces does it have? Anyway, according to this link, it sounds easy to add new ones:

http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2...

More information here:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki...

I haven't used openoffice.org so I can't speak from experience.