Bug#531562: Please make it more obvious when fonts are substituted
Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1:3.1.0-4
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I find it misleading that I don't get informed whenever a font is
substituted e.g. in a Writer document. Don't get me wrong, I believe
font substitution is a valuable feature and I have it enabled
knowingly, but sometimes it leads to unexpected behaviour.
For example, there is a document available on [1] that aims to compare
the metrics of some freely available fonts with the ones from Times
New Roman and Arial. If I have neither of these fonts installed on my
system but only e.g. ttf-dejavu, then *all* fonts in this document
will look the same on my computer since they all get substituted with
the dejavu fonts. So all available text in this document will look the
same, because it is rendered in the same font. However, when I
highlight some text, the font chooser box still tells me that the
current text is written in e.g. "Times New Roman". This isn't wrong
either, since the text is formatted in TNR, but it doesn't tell me
that what I see is actually not TNR, but dejavu-serif.
So what I'd like to see is some visible hint that tells me font A has
been substituted by font B on my system, because font A could not be
found.
Thanks,
Fabian
[1]
http://www.oooninja.com/2008/02/metrical-equivalent-fonts-and-font.html
PS: I assigned this bug to the openoffice.org meta-package, because I
think all parts of OOo that support font substitution are affected.
--
Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT)
Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3/134
D-44780 Bochum
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E-Mail: greffrath@leat.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
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