Issue 24296 - add option to disable font substitution
Summary: add option to disable font substitution
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: gsl
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: AOO PleaseHelp
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2004-01-11 14:27 UTC by ousia
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:12 UTC (History)
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Description ousia 2004-01-11 14:27:41 UTC 
If I try to change the font of one of the text styles, the missing characters of
this font aren't displayed as such, but are substituted into a different font
(such as Lucida Sans). There should be a method (in OOo options) to avoid this
automatic font substitution for missing chars on a given font.

Thanks,


Pablo
Comment 1 rblackeagle 2004-01-11 19:32:17 UTC 
Since this kind of substitution I want to have (for punctuation and other
characters missing from a font), I would prefer it as an option per document as
well.
Comment 2 h.ilter 2004-01-12 13:47:49 UTC 
Reassigned to US
Comment 3 lohmaier 2004-01-12 20:02:11 UTC 
original summary "missing characters on a given font"

confirming, setting type to enhancement, changed OS, Plattform to ALL, updated
summary.
not touching target-milestone (has been set by hi)
Comment 4 ulf.stroehler 2004-01-13 12:04:39 UTC 
Currently a font substitution is configurable via
/Tools/Options/OpenOffice.org/Fonts. The settings in here overrule the default
font substitution settings. 
Hint: in /Tools/Options/OpenOffice.org/Fonts it is even possible to define a
substitute for a non existing font.

But it sounds reasonable to also have an option to configure the glyph
substitution as well. Offering a dialog to change this on a per document basis
sounds as a good idea to me too.

US->MMP: as you already own suggestions to improve the above mentioned dialog,
pls. consider also this RFE when specifying a change.
Pls. come back to me and HDU for details.
Thanks.
Comment 5 lohmaier 2004-01-13 19:57:11 UTC 
To be clear/to avoid misunderstandings: 

An option to disable glyph-fallback is requested. 

i.e. instead of displaying the missing glyph using a different font OOo should
display a placeholder/defined replacement character (maybe the red upside-down
questionmark from math) when the requested option is checked.
Comment 6 matthias.mueller-prove 2004-02-20 16:19:54 UTC 
changed target to Office later
Comment 7 matthias.mueller-prove 2004-02-23 14:03:22 UTC 
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Comment 8 matthias.mueller-prove 2009-09-06 10:16:21 UTC 
I am no longer officially active on OOo. Please take over.