Missing fonts create huge problem

In spring of 2023 Windows forced an update while I was editing my eighth and final fashion technology  textbook. I was finishing a series of college-classroom tested textbooks that had taken 30 years to write. The books present how the industry drafts and sews, information needed globally, as even in the industry, thanks to line assembly, few know how the entire process works. The information is scaled down, allowing its use even without electricity. Scaled diagrams, step-by-step instructions present the information needed to understand the industrial processes involved with fashion production.

GONE were my most important fonts - Bookman, Edwardian, that had been imbeded in my paragraph styles. I contacted my computer expert and he helped me purchase substitute fonts, which require replacing three to four fonts in every chapter in all eight books. Each book contains at least 20 chapters.

Always in the past it was so easy to access the fonts by just accessing the desired font from the "type" drop down, then selecting a bold or italic version if desired. That's gone. I'm used to working a certain way, which has been interruped.

Fortunately the books had also been saved as PDFs, but to make even the smallest correction in any of the books, I have 20 chapters to update with fonts, an overwhelming task.

I wish computer innovaters would consider the effect their upgrades can have on those of us who depend on our computers to make information available. The whole experience is demoralizing.

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