Linux and fonts

Classic Servoy
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We’ve jsut moved our Servoy 5 server from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Debian Linux.
Most everything works fine but we’ve noticed that some fonts get substituted. We use the pdf_output plugin to generate print jobs.
I’m quite new to Linux, but I suspect that the default fonts are different to those on the Mac OSX environment that I develop on.

Could anyone advise me

  • what are ‘safe’ fonts that I can use when developing on Mac and serving on a Linux box with default fonts?
    or
  • Are there equivalent fonts I could install on linux? At first look, the elements that are affected are all Tahoma.

Thanks in advance.

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This site http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-CombinedResults.shtml lists fonts common to Windows, Mac and Linux. According to that, Tahoma should be a safe bet.