On 5/10/22 10:16 AM, Kam Leo wrote:
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"..
1. I've previously created Writer docs in Fedora, and then later edited
them and found that the font used when creating the docs is no longer
supported, and then when editing them again later yet, the font used in
the second version is no longer supported. What you suggest does not
solve my problem in such cases. Also, I am likely to need to edit them
240ish converted documents in the future.
2. I will eventually be creating on my Fedora workstation more Writer
documents like the 240ish I'm converting. For those, I do want the same
"look and feel". PDF does not help.
The original question stands:
How do I know which currently available Fedora fonts are most likely to
be supported for a long time, and which are most vulnerable to
sunsetting? This question is relevant to new documents as well as
converting old ones.
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 8:21 AM home user <mattisonw@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:mattisonw@xxxxxxxxxxx>> 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.
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