https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159752
Bug ID: 159752
Summary: 17 Noto Fonts dropped from 24.2 bundle without notice
(and 1 added)
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 24.2.0.3 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: from+documentfoundat...@jdlh.com
Seventeen Noto fonts appear to have been dropped from LO 24.2.0.3 (installers
for macOS_x86-64 and macOS_aarch64, at least) compared to LO 7.6.4 (installer
for macOS_aarch64). The 24.2 Release Notes
(https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/24.2#Feature_Removal_/_Deprecation)
do not mention unbundling any fonts. The Fonts wiki page
(https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Fonts#List_of_fonts_in_LibreOffice) still
lists these fonts as included.
Font file counts:
152 in `/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Resources/fonts/truetype` within
**LibreOffice_7.6.4_MacOS_aarch64.dmg**
136 in `/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Resources/fonts/truetype` within
**LibreOffice_24.2.0_MacOS_aarch64.dmg**
(Identical contents in `/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Resources/fonts/truetype`
within the macOS_x86-64 and macOS_aarch64 `.dmg` for LibreOffice 24.2.0 .)
The following font files are in LO 7.6.4 (macOS_aarch64), but not in 24.2
(macOS_aarch64):
NotoMono-Regular.ttf
NotoNaskhArabicUI-Bold.ttf
NotoNaskhArabicUI-Regular.ttf
NotoSans-Condensed.ttf
NotoSans-CondensedBold.ttf
NotoSans-CondensedBoldItalic.ttf
NotoSans-CondensedItalic.ttf
NotoSans-Light.ttf
NotoSans-LightItalic.ttf
NotoSansArabicUI-Bold.ttf
NotoSansArabicUI-Regular.ttf
NotoSerif-Condensed.ttf
NotoSerif-CondensedBold.ttf
NotoSerif-CondensedBoldItalic.ttf
NotoSerif-CondensedItalic.ttf
NotoSerif-Light.ttf
NotoSerif-LightItalic.ttf
There are 31 other Noto fonts in both 7.6.4 and 24.2:
NotoKufiArabic-Bold.ttf, NotoKufiArabic-Regular.ttf
NotoNaskhArabic-Bold.ttf, NotoNaskhArabic-Regular.ttf
NotoSans-Bold.ttf, NotoSans-BoldItalic.ttf, NotoSans-Italic.ttf,
NotoSans-Regular.ttf
NotoSansArabic-Bold.ttf, NotoSansArabic-Regular.ttf
NotoSansArmenian-Bold.ttf, NotoSansArmenian-Regular.ttf
NotoSansGeorgian-Bold.ttf, NotoSansGeorgian-Regular.ttf
NotoSansHebrew-Bold.ttf, NotoSansHebrew-Regular.ttf
NotoSansLao-Bold.ttf, NotoSansLao-Regular.ttf
NotoSansLisu-Regular.ttf
NotoSerif-Bold.ttf, NotoSerif-BoldItalic.ttf, NotoSerif-Italic.ttf,
NotoSerif-Regular.ttf
NotoSerifArmenian-Bold.ttf, NotoSerifArmenian-Regular.ttf
NotoSerifGeorgian-Bold.ttf, NotoSerifGeorgian-Regular.ttf
NotoSerifHebrew-Bold.ttf, NotoSerifHebrew-Regular.ttf
NotoSerifLao-Bold.ttf, NotoSerifLao-Regular.ttf
Also, LO 24.2 has one font which 7.6.4 did not, and this is not mentioned in
the 24.2 Release Notes:
NotoSansLisu-Bold.ttf
(This is, strictly speaking, a different bug than fonts dropped.)
The expected behaviour is that LibreOffice 24.2 bundles the same fonts as
LibreOffice 7.6.4, or that the Release Notes, and Fonts wiki page, identify all
fonts which are added and removed.
The impact for me was that I had an existing LibreOffice Calc document, which I
had formatted in Noto Mono font, and when I upgraded from LO 7.3.2 to 24.2, the
Noto Mono font disappeared and my document had the wrong appearance. I am
completely sympathetic to the argument that I should install directly those
fonts I want to use for my own documents — LibreOffice is not a font
distribution — but also, LibreOffice does not make it clear when I use a
bundled font instead of a font installed outside LibreOffice.
I am unable to find a bug which documents intentional removal of these fonts.
Maybe tdf#124591 indirectly documents the removal of Noto Mono.
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