https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35538
--- Comment #62 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalr...@gmx.com> --- (In reply to خالد حسني from comment #61) > This is basically a Windows/MS Office compatibility issue. I disagree, see argument below. > On Windows we use GDI Considering that GDI is a legacy component: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Device_Interface we should probably not be using it on Windows, regardless of anything else. > to get font family and style, and it can only give is > families with max of 4 styles, OpenType even have a workaround for this, so > fonts with more styles can appear as multiple families That's better than nothing, but not good enough, as it creates its own problems - compatibility-wise and by confusing users, with the list of font families no longer containing just font families. > There are two ways to fix this whole mess: > 1) Forgo Windows/MS Office compatibility and find a way to get the real > family and style on Windows. > 2) Enforce the compatibility contains on Linux and macOS and use the same > family and style names as on Windows. That's not true. We can _keep_ Windows/MS-Office compatibility, _and_ get the real family, weight and style on Windows, _and_ expose the range of weights to the user, _and_ be compatible with Linux and MacOS. The only "problem" seems to be writing documents intended to be opened in MS-Office. When we do that, we would probably need to sort-kinda keep doing what were doing today, so that MS-Word can use the right font. But that should be addressed at most as a toggle-able save option, not by crippling LibreOffice... PS - Of course that would take some serious low-level work. So an argument such as "this is not a high priority" could perhaps be made. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
