Also, in the case of ClearType fonts, the license is strictly connected to the Windows and/or Office license, so to legitimately use them with LibreOffice you need a Windows license where they are included. In fact, Microsoft Office document are often using one of the default fonts – either the old “ Core Fonts for the Web” (deprecated in 2002, but still in use) or the new “ ClearType Fonts” (launched in 2000, and now adopted by Windows and Office) – which are not always available in LibreOffice, as they are proprietary and cannot be distributed with open source software.

Before it was crashing every couple of minutes.Fonts are one of the main culprits of LibreOffice interoperability problems with Microsoft Office documents, when viewed from the end user’s point of view. xlxs file for 20 minutes or more without it crashing. Anyway, after installing the Java update, we worked on the. It downloaded with an (1) after the file name, so it seems that I had already downloaded it before when setting up High Sierra for her, but it let me install it again (or maybe I never installed it before.?). Then out of ideas about what to do, I searched for downloaded High Sierra Java from Apple's site. Thinking it was a problem with the newest version of LibreOffice and High Sierra, I removed it (and all its associated files), then installed an older version, but that had the same problem. Well, we found that it would randomly and frequently crash with spinning beach ball cursor and the only option to force quit it. I've been using LibreOffice for years and suggested she use it too.

She has taken over some financial responsibilities for an organization and needs to update existing Microsoft Office Excel files. My aunt has an older iMac that will only upgrade to High Sierra.

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