Use Microsoft Word / WPS Office font styles in LibreOffice?

[SominGuy]

Hello there! so I have been using WPS office for around a year, and I really wanna convert to using LibreOffice, since I think it has a lot of neat features, and it seems more polished overall!

However, there is one problem that is stopping me from fully converting to LibreOffice, and while it might seem like a small thing, it means a lot to me.

Basically, when I open my existing documents, all of the font styles get messed up, and I wouldn’t mind that much if they are changed but I can change them back, but it appears that I can’t even do that, and I can only change the color of the fonts and not how they look.

Here’s an example, here’s how it looks like in WPS office:

And here’s how the same document looks when I open it in LibreOffice

As I said, if I could change it back it wouldn’t be a problem, but I looked through the settings and everything and I can’t find a way to change it back.

I would even settle for making it a different design but making it so that the different subtitles are unique, but the only thing i can find to change is the font, and the color [ and some other things like shadow & outline but there’s almost 0 customizability there]

So my question, in a nutshell, is: Is there a way to edit regular text with more customization than just colors & underlines?

This is basically the only thing preventing me from switching mainly to LibreOffice, so if someone could answer it would be appreciated!

P.S: I know about fontwork, it’s not really what I’m looking for since I would have to put it in every time I want a special subtitle, and that’s a lot of work for the type of documents I’m making, so if there’s something else [even a plugin] I would appreciate if you could tell me!

[ajlittoz]

Are you sure you are using Writer? Your pictures look like something done with Impress (PowerPoint equivalent).

In Writer, you gain maximum control over formatting and appearance with styles. Styles come in 5 flavours: paragraph, character, page, frame and list while Word knows only of paragraph. Styles are less powerful in Impress but meet the usual expectations.

I assume that the two screenshots have been taken on the same computer and you checked the same fonts were effectively used.

If this is the case, the problem may originate in the font rendering engine used by LibreOffice, HarfBuzz. The OpenType specification has not well defined, if at all, the format of color fonts. But I doubt your font has inherent colour because the T’s in TITLE are not the same colour. I would bet for a gradient applied as a post-processing on the line.

This leads me to think that you didn’t use a text processing application (formatting a long text broken into paragraphs and automatically allocated to pages) but rather a “slide organiser” with advanced graphical effects. In the LibreOffice suite, Impress is the slide organiser but advanced graphical effect like gradient is available in Draw.

Getting the TITLE with gradient would need a contorted process where the gradient is set up in Draw and the resultant image imported into Impress.

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[SominGuy]

Hello, thanks for responding! I wanted to say that English isn’t my first language so I apologize if I have misunderstood you.

In the first picture, I am using a different program called WPS writer, and in WPS writer you can make
the fonts have gradient colors, gradient outlines, glows, different colored shadows, etc. Here’s a gif of me using WPS writer to make a new font style:

As you can see, there is a lot of customization, however, when I go in LibreOffice writer, I can’t really find that level of customization, now sure, I know that they are different programs, and there probably won’t be all the customization options in LibreOffice as in WPS, but I’m just looking for a bit more customization for regular text if that makes sense [and yes I know about font work but it’s not really what I’m looking for since it’s more of an image then regular text]

Hopefully, I explained myself well enough, if you’re confused about something please let me know

[ajlittoz]

I’m afraid such effects which are rather graphic art than common text processing are not supported in LO Writer, mainly because the font rendering backend has no provision for them.

I think Impress which is roughly based on the same engine does not support them either.

Draw provides a somewhat equivalent feature with FontWork. You create tour text in Draw and customise it. The result is an image you can copy and paste into Writer or Impress. This is not as immediate as in WPS Office but it can be done.

[SominGuy]

Ah, okay, thanks for responding! I guess it’s not possible then, well, I used LibreOffice a bit and I think even though it can’t replicate this it’s still fantastic and I’m probably going to make the switch, well, thanks for helping out!

[Grantler]

Also Word (2010 and later) can format text in gradient style like WPS office. For Writer it’s useless to try this, you only could change the colour of single characters.

For some reasons this exceptional format for texts maybe interesting; I only once noticed it in a school’s information for parents. What can I say - useless for understanding; sometimes less is better than more…

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Probably there are extensions like Text Effects | Apache OpenOffice Extensions to modify plain texts. Try out and search for more ones…

[SominGuy]

Ah thanks, I’ll probably check it out, however, since I have been using liberoffice in the last few days I must say even without the font changing features it’s a really neat program, so I’ll most likely make the switch!
But thanks for the extension recommendation, I might check it out!