Disasterous first startup!

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#1

Today I decided to make the jump! I cancelled my MS Office subscription, and installed LibreOffice!

Upon opening my first file, a teaching document using the Google Teachers font, the text was completely ineligible! I was horrified by the disaster! Our entire school uses the Google Teachers font, and I can’t expect my colleagues to change the school templates because Libre Office can’t use the font! I tried to make a new file, but the font still couldn’t be read. I then asked Grok for help, fiddling around with hardware acceleration…

It seems that Libre Office can’t open run the Google fonts (why?). Any advice? I am using Windows 11 (I know, I know… work PC). Help please! I will be in trouble come Monday if Libre Office can’t support Google fonts, but I REALLY don’t want to go back to MS Office, unless it can’t be avoided.

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#2

I have installed one of the Google Teachers fonts (there are many flavors! I used Teachers-VariableFont_wght.ttf). And in my testing, it showed OK using Version: 25.8.4.2 (X86_64)
Build ID: 290daaa01b999472f0c7a3890eb6a550fd74c6df
CPU threads: 24; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26200); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-GB
Calc: CL threaded

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So - which specific font is installed / used on your system? Which font is used in the document? Attaching a sample document that doesn’t work for you could also help.

And yes, abandoning an existing subscription before evaluation of the alternative could be unreasonable.

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#6

Odd. I will try to reinstall the font. It is on the system. Maybe it’s a Windows problem?

#3

Why?
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But on topic: LibreOffice uses the fonts installed in your OS (local). So you need to find your font at google, download it, maybe unpack the .zip and install the font. A double click should work, otherwise there is usually “Install” in the context menu (right mouse button) of the files.
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So I suggest to start here:

Thats up to you. But you can run both on the same computer for a time, until you know your needs are fullfilled.
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If you expect LibreOffice to be a drop-in replacement for MS-Office you are in trouble. It depends on the features you really use. (But as there are even compatibility issues between versions of MS-office, that should be nothing new.)

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#4

longer, but   works too :wink:
 
 
 
<br> also.

#5

I used this font before. I will try to reinstall it.

#7

and <p> is even nicer, but unless you can suggest a shortcut for android-phones (virtual keyboard) this will not be used often by me.

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