Bug 163591 – Bad font substitutions

Bugzilla will be upgraded to version 5.0 on a still to be determined date in the near future. The original upgrade date has been delayed.

Bug 163591 - Bad font substitutions

Summary:	Bad font substitutions

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	openoffice.org (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	4
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Caolan McNamara
QA Contact:
Docs Contact:

URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:

Depends On:
Blocks:
	Show dependency tree / graph

Reported:	2005-07-19 06:42 EDT by Tim Waugh
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

See Also:
Fixed In Version:	1.9.122-4
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:	2005-08-08 04:27:35 EDT
Type:	---
Regression:	---
Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---
CRM:
Verified Versions:
Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---
RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---

Attachments	(Terms of Use)
havecrushonyou.TTF (83.16 KB, text/plain) 2005-07-19 06:42 EDT, Tim Waugh	no flags	Details
example source (2.04 KB, text/x-csrc) 2005-07-19 09:16 EDT, Caolan McNamara	no flags	Details
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Groups: None (edit)

Description Tim Waugh 2005-07-19 06:42:42 EDT

Description of problem:
With the test update of openoffice.org, font substitutions are handled very
badly.  This is a regression since 1.9.112-1.1.0.fc4.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.9.117-2.1.0.fc4

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install the attached font
2. Start oowriter
3. Type something

Actual results:
Default font is "I used to have a crush on you".

Expected results:
Default font is something a bit more normal!

Additional info:
This font is also substituted for "Times New Roman".

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2005-07-19 06:42:42 EDT

Created attachment 116918 [details]
havecrushonyou.TTF

Comment 2 Caolan McNamara 2005-07-19 09:16:50 EDT

Created attachment 116926 [details]
example source

source to reproduce this substitution

Comment 3 Caolan McNamara 2005-07-19 09:22:13 EDT

perhaps bug 163147 is related.

caolanm->davidz: our OOo uses font-config to find font substitutions, OOo can
only use outline fonts so I make a subset of the available fonts and create a
config of outline only. Then with the above font installed the sample code
attached gives the new font as it's best substitution. Can you have a look and
see if there's a solution ?

Comment 4 Caolan McNamara 2005-08-05 11:07:46 EDT

caolanm->twaugh: is this still the case with 1.9.122-3 ?

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2005-08-08 04:23:52 EDT

I installed this package on FC4:

openoffice.org-core-1.9.122-4.2.0.fc5

and that seems to fix the problem, yes.

Comment 6 Caolan McNamara 2005-08-08 04:27:35 EDT

alternative fontconfig stuff seems to avoid this problem them. Fixed rawhide,
and we'll push a fc4 update in the next week or two.

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.