Bug#747132: libreoffice: The metapackage libreoffice should not recommend liberation fonts
severity 747132 wishlist
found 747132 1:4.1.5-2
thanks
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 03:21:37PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> The libreoffice metapackage (in wheezy and experimental)
> recommends the liberation fonts. These fonts should
> instead be recommended by the individual libreoffice
> components. The components need them, even when
> installed individually.
If you have stuff using Arial, yes. So you suggest every component
doing anything with fonts (so everything except Base recommend it)?
Will think about it: if we did it it probably should be -core recommending
it (as it does all the font stuff.)
> Installing just the components and not the metapackage
> (and, I presume, not the ttf-liberation fonts or whatever
Yes, but doing that should be done by people who know what they do.
> the package is in experimental) leads to the following
> situation:
>
> Opening a .doc document made in MS Word displays
> fine on the screen, but exporting to PDF or
> printing results in display of only the bolded or italic
> or otherwise changed fonts. (I didn't
> investigate in detail exactly what it was
> that displayed.) The "regular" text of the
> document disappears.
Depends on the font probably and if that font is "substituted"
by liberation or not.
> This is fixed by installing the libreoffice
> metapackage, I presume because the liberation
> fonts are then installed.
The original idea why this is in the metapackage is that the metapackage is supposed
to install everything LO ships in their upstream distribution if possible. That also
includes fonts. (So liberation, Devaju, Gentium..) I didn't update that list for longer,
though...
Regards,
Rene
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