anotherChris
February 20th, 2016, 05:11 AM
This is not exactly a support question... I just want to understand why something works...
If I open a .docx file in LibreOffice that was written in Times New Roman and an MS kanji font, LibreOffice can display these documents even when the fonts are not installed on my computer. It's just that if I try to manipulate the document by typing in it, I can't insert anything new in these fonts. I want to know why.
I'm guessing that a .docx file contains information similar to a PDF that tells a word processor how to display the fonts even though they aren't installed in the word processor. So when LibreOffice shows me a .docx file in Times New Roman and has "Times New Roman" listed in the font drop-down menu in italics, it's been told by the .docx document how to display and what the name of the font is, but LibreOffice doesn't really "know" how to display Times New Roman even though it appears to be telling me that's what it's doing.
is this correct?
The other possibility is that Times New Roman is actually bundled with LibreOffice but somehow disabled for writing until ttf-mscore is installed, which "unlocks" the font via the license agreement. But I suspect this is not correct.
Can anyone explain this quickly in non-technical language? Thanks.
If I open a .docx file in LibreOffice that was written in Times New Roman and an MS kanji font, LibreOffice can display these documents even when the fonts are not installed on my computer. It's just that if I try to manipulate the document by typing in it, I can't insert anything new in these fonts. I want to know why.
I'm guessing that a .docx file contains information similar to a PDF that tells a word processor how to display the fonts even though they aren't installed in the word processor. So when LibreOffice shows me a .docx file in Times New Roman and has "Times New Roman" listed in the font drop-down menu in italics, it's been told by the .docx document how to display and what the name of the font is, but LibreOffice doesn't really "know" how to display Times New Roman even though it appears to be telling me that's what it's doing.
is this correct?
The other possibility is that Times New Roman is actually bundled with LibreOffice but somehow disabled for writing until ttf-mscore is installed, which "unlocks" the font via the license agreement. But I suspect this is not correct.
Can anyone explain this quickly in non-technical language? Thanks.