On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 12:21 PM 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. > I've been involved with conference proceedings where authors provided documents with "Times" like fonts from different versions of Windows and Office, including Japanese fonts (being used for English docuemnts). The organizers attempted to share the originals, but many authors encountered problems with differences in fonts such as missing "ffi" ligatures, differences in fonts used for mathematics, italics generated by simply transforming an upright font, and "fake" caps and small caps fonts. Open Office (this was before LO appeared) came to the rescue back then. > > 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? > You should look for high quality open source fonts. There is an abundance of low-quality open source fonts, many of which are not maintained and may not be available in the future. The <Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) <https://www.stixfonts.org/>> project is supported by a consortium of publishers with the goal of making high-quality fonts that can be used across different software and can be expected to be available for many years. > By the way, why do so many fonts show up twice in the font selection tools? > > Different programs may install different versions. You may have Type1, Truetype, and or Opentype format files for the same font name, as well as multiple versions in the same format. Some systems provide aliased names so you can have two different fonts showing under the same generic name. -- George N. White III
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