Why not convert your files to PDF? You can embed all your fonts in each document and maintain your formatting, .i.e. the "look and feel"..
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 8:21 AM home user <mattis...@comcast.net> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >
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