[Solved] Garamond font missing from computer?

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ThylacineP
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[Solved] Garamond font missing from computer?

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Ummmm, I was using an open office document this morning, happily typing in Garamond. I closed the program and reopened it a few hours later.
The program crashed twice and now my beloved Garamond is missing from the font selector.

This is a NOT OKAY! EMERGENCY! PANIC!

What have I done wrong and how do I get my beloved Garamond back?
Thank you.
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Re: Garamond missing?

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Look in your system settings and establish whether Garamond is installed on your computer. It is not a font supplied by OpenOffice, and unless installed by default on your computer (I cannot answer for a Mac), it must have been installed as an extra font, either specifically by you, or as part of some package,

If OpenOffice cannot find a specific font (which will be shown as the font in use on the Formatting toolbar), it silently replaces it in the document with as close a fitting font as it can find installed on the computer, but leaves that text marked as requiring the missing font. It does not mess with installed fonts, so an OpenOffice crash will not remove a font from your computer.
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Re: Garamond missing?

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Will have to take a look into my installed fonts. Thank you
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Garamond is a font supplied with MS Office. It is not on this list: It is listed as a font available only in documents that already use the font under "Fonts available for document support in Big Sur" in this list:

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Garamond font missing from computer?

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Hi, and welcome to the forum.
ThylacineP wrote:I was using an open office document this morning, happily typing in Garamond.
Maybe. Maybe not. In Writer, Format → Character → Font (or the equivalent portion of the Style dialog) a selection of text will show the font the document wants to use. If the font is installed on your operating system, Writer can use it. If not, Writer will substitute a similar font. Learn which of the fonts your requested in your document are not installed by using the TestFonts extension.
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ThylacineP wrote:The program crashed twice and now my beloved Garamond is missing from the font selector. … What have I done wrong and how do I get my beloved Garamond back?
You can try restoring your document from a backup which you made before the document became damaged while you were using it. Then the document should say it is using Garamond again, even if it isn't. Writer can't use a font which isn't installed.
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ThylacineP wrote:EMERGENCY! PANIC!
A simple workaround might be to use the Baskerville font. It is installed on MacOS and is quite close to Garamond. MacOS provides dozens of fonts and perhaps you can find one in Font Book (Apple's font manager application) which you like even better than Baskerville. In this illustration, Baskerville is shown at the top, Garamond at the bottom.
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Bill wrote:It is listed as a font available only in documents that already use the font under "Fonts available for document support in Big Sur" in this list:
OpenOffice will use the fonts installed on the operating system, in this case MacOS. Fonts on MacOS are installed with Apple's Font Book application. If there are questions about MacOS fonts, ask those in an Apple forum. This forum is for OpenOffice and I have very little experience with fonts on a Mac so you may find better assistance there. Garamond, along with many other fonts, comes with MacOS however it not installed for use by applications.

If none of Baskerville or the other installed fonts is suitable, I believe you can install Garamond if it is a requirement for your work. In Finder, use Go → Computer and navigate to Macintosh HD → Library → Application Support → Apple → Fonts → iWork and you should find find Garamond.ttc. Double-clicking that, Font Book launches and offers an Install Font button. I believe you need Quit OpenOffice and launch it again so it can find a newly-installed font. If you need further help with installing a font on MacOS, contact Apple or one of their forums.
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