On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 8:21 AM home user <mattisonw@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
Add a 4th step to your checklist.
Backup and transfer the fonts you legally own to durable media
and install them as needed.
You rarely "own" fonts. Licenses for commercial fonts may allow backups,
but only for recovery on the system where they were first installed.
"Apart from the document embedding rights described previously,
you may not redistribute the Windows fonts. You may not copy
them to other computers or servers, and you may not convert
them to other formats, including bitmap formats, or modify them."
It may be as simple as navigating to C:\Windows\Fonts, and then
copying the font files
to a USB disk and then installing them locally on another machine.
Adobe fonts are often constrained so look for and use ones that are not.
TeX fonts are another source of confusion and opportunity.
Apple fonts seem to be favorites of managers.
Font formats add additional confusion, both display and print, watch
for pix map fonts that do not scale for your display.
Font technology has been evolving to support more languages, etc.
You should not expect arbitrary fonts installed in previous Windows
versions to be supported in current versions. I hope that future MS
Word will import legacy documents using some hidden conversion
process, but in the past manual cleanup has been required.