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 -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [email protected] | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
