Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 69625
Same font names, different appearances.
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:31:17 UTC
1. Look at the illustration attached. 2. There are two snapshots in the upper part of the illustration. The left one uses a font name "HG 明æœL Sun" in Japanese while the right one uses a font name "HG Minchol Sun" in Western. Both font names are logically same, but those appearances are different. 3. There is another snapshot in the right bottom of the illustration. It uses "Hg Pgothicb Sun" and is rendered in a strange, unacceptable way. It should be rendered at a similar quality as the left upper one. The phenomenon observed in Writer can also be seen with both Calc and Draw.
Created attachment 39205 [details] Illustrates appearances with Both Japanese and Western font names.
Created attachment 39206 [details] With a font name HG MinchoL Sun in Japanese
Created attachment 39207 [details] With font name Mg Minchol Sun in Western
Created attachment 39208 [details] With font name Hg Pgothicb Sun
*** Issue 67176 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
pl->hdu: please have a look
hdu: How is this going? How may i help you? The impact of this issue can be seen here and there of OOo, in a document, in the online help, and more, and it really drives users mad. I am attaching another example 69625_Hg-Pgothicb-Sun.* that was taken under the following environment: Targets: http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/ooomisc/sdf/OOo_l10n/ soli/en-US_download/OOo_2.1.0_061101_Solarisx86_install.tar.gz soli/ja_download/OOo_2.1.0_061031_Solarisx86_langpack_ja.tar.gz Environment: Platform: Solaris 10 6/06 x86 [1] Language: ja_JP.UTF-8 Desktop: Sun Java Desktop System (JDS) [1]: Only Japanese language support has been installed besides English. If you need the environment, i will put an image of VMware somewhere.
Created attachment 40332 [details] Illustrates the difference between font Hg Pgothicb Sun and Hg-Pgothicb-Sun.
Created attachment 40333 [details] Its document
Workaround taught by hdu: Disabling retrieval of font names through the interface that 'xlsfonts' uses by assigning an environment variable SAL_ENABLE_NATIVE_XFONTS=0 lets this problem go away.
The workaround mentioned above will be the default in the near future (when CWS vcl69 is integrated; for details see issue 62039).
set target 3.x
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".