Bug#531562: Please make it more obvious when fonts are substituted
forwarded 531562 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=102449
thanks
Hi,
Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> 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.
And I find it misleading that all people seem to think that they have to
file their questionable wishes here in the BTS, incrreasing the *bug* count
for no avail and make me forwarding it to upstream - which might never get
attention...
Should I really play proxy for every bug? No.
> 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.
Forwarded upstream.
> PS: I assigned this bug to the openoffice.org meta-package, because I
> think all parts of OOo that support font substitution are affected.
You (IMHO) should not have filed it here at all.
Grüße/Regards,
René
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