[PLUG] Font collections for cross-platform compatibility?

[Scott Garman]

I imagine many of you who run Linux desktops are frustrated by the font 
situation, and find editing MS Office documents back and forth between 
OpenOffice under Linux and MS Office under Windows to be a pain at least 
in part due to the differences in font availability.

Searching for font collections on Google returns a dizzying number of 
results. I was wondering if anyone can suggest a font collection I can 
obtain for free or purchase for a fee that would provide my Linux 
desktop a highly compatible set of fonts with what is typically found on 
modern Windows or even OS X systems?

If buying the exact same fonts separately would be prohibitively 
expensive (which I'm guessing is likely), I'd be willing to settle for a 
collection of near-identical fonts that are named in an obvious enough 
way that I would which fonts to substitute for their Windows alternatives.

Thanks,

Scott

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Scott Garman
sgarman at zenlinux dot com