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Bug#531562: marked as done (Please make it more obvious when fonts are substituted)

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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. 

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as the package openoffice.org has just been removed from the Debian archive
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that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

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