On 5/10/22 9:21 AM, home user wrote:
I'd like to suspend this thread for a few days while I go to the
LibreOffice community with a few LibreOffice-specific questions.
thanks,
Bill.
> Good morning,
>
> I have about 240 microsoft office word 2010 documents, all 9+ years old,
> that I'm converting to LibreOffice Writer in Fedora-35. I'm having to
> do this in 3 steps:
>
> 1. In windows-7, content is copied from the word files to Writer files.
> Tweaks are made to line spacing in tables. The word documents use two
> fonts: Times New Roman (various sizes; sometimes regular, sometimes
> italic, sometimes bold), and Vivaldi. Writer in windows-7 seems to
> support all the fonts used in the word documents.
>
> 2. Writer files are copied to my Fedora workstation.
>
> Unfortunately, neither Times New Roman nor Vivaldi are available in
> Fedora-35. So I need a step 3: to convert the fonts to choices that are
> available in Fedora-35, and are expected to be available for a long time
> to come. It's that last condition that I need help with. It's happened
> to me in the past that a font that I used in Writer (in Fedora) ceased
> to be available, so I changed it to the closest match that was
> available. Then that font ceased to be available. So before I start
> step 3 with them 240ish Writer files, how do I know which fonts are
> likely to be permanent or supported in Fedora for many years, and which
> are most vulnerable to being sunset sooner rather than later?
>
> By the way, why do so many fonts show up twice in the font selection tools?
>
> Thank-you in advance.