Bug 103342 (Font-Substitution)

Summary: [META] Font substitution bugs and enhancements
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) <philipz85>
Component: LibreOfficeAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: ahiijny, aron.budea, cno, eyalroz1, libretraining.tutorials, thomas.lendo, vsfoote, yvan
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157526
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:
Bug Depends on: 43185, 61134, 63011, 64509, 78186, 94327, 96872, 100900, 104667, 105318, 107484, 108243, 113007, 115924, 115946, 120131, 129367, 134761, 135602, 141222, 146291, 148039, 152765, 153158, 158261, 159950, 161373, 161378, 31072, 47230, 55255, 68880, 80812, 87532, 88438, 89246, 90554, 90842, 91004, 94203, 98989, 102739, 102914, 103514, 103664, 107487, 107612, 108417, 113176, 114844, 115944, 118411, 127147, 130181, 138857, 145563, 150403, 151010, 152439, 153440, 154753, 155276, 157415, 158589    
Bug Blocks: 102985    

Description Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2016-10-20 03:03:23 UTC 

    


    


      



        
          Comment 1
        

        
          Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired)

        

        
        

        
          2016-10-20 03:04:14 UTC
        

      






Font substitution is a major issue for document fidelity, so it definitely deserves a meta bug.

Indication and Information
Bug 61134 - Font substitute name should appear in the font combobox and tooltip
Bug 78186 - Show infobar that fonts are missing and list their substitutes
Bug 96872 - Make it more obvious that a font has been substituted

Substitution Table
Bug 64509 - CONFIGURATION: Enhance Font Substitution Table 
Bug 91004 - 'Tms Rmn' font should be substituted for Times New Roman or Liberation Serif
Bug 98650 - Fira Mono fonts poor replacement font metrics
Bug 55255 - SchuDruck1 font not substituted correctly

    


    


      



        
          Comment 2
        

        
          Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired)

        

        
        

        
          2016-12-18 09:59:24 UTC
        

      






How we plan to deal with various aspects of font substitution.

https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2016/10/21/dealing-with-missing-fonts/

    


    


      



        
          Comment 3
        

        
          Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired)

        

        
        

        
          2016-12-18 10:04:40 UTC
        

      






The google doc that was used to create the blog post in comment 2 that has addition details that wasnt published.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mbs-NW_w8lczMyMwUl5Uc0GYuhFK_KE6g7NASZBnIM0/edit?usp=sharing