Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 87641
OOo preferes modified font with different name instead of using the original Font
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:33:44 UTC
This is a regression compared to OOo 2.3.1 (thus P2) OOo 2.4.0 chooses a wrong font, one that is listed in the Font-Dropdown with a different name that is based on the selected font, whereas OOo 2.3.1 did choose the font that was selected. Images/Samples say more than thousand words, so please see the attached PDFs. In both cases, the font "Arial" was selected via the font-dropdown, then the text was typed. No changes on the system were done except installing the new version of OOo. the pspfontcache was deleted prior to starting the office (those will be attached as well, along with a font to reproduce) 2.3.1 actually uses Arial, both on display and in the export to PDF, 2.4.1 however uses the mod "MetallicA NEW". And as that font only has changed versions of a few glyphs, the effect is obvious.
Created attachment 52390 [details] result as expected. I select Arial, and OOo uses Arial
Created attachment 52391 [details] broken result. I select Arial, but OOo uses a different font, despite Arial being installed & available.
Created attachment 52392 [details] pspfontcache as created by 2.3.1
Created attachment 52393 [details] pspfontcache as created by 2.4.0
Created attachment 52395 [details] sample font to reproduce
@cloph: can you also attach the original document (an *.odt file probably)?
@cloph: also the result of the command "fc-match Arial" would be interesting
$ fc-match Arial ARIAL.TTF: "Arial" "Regular" $ odt to follow, but nothing special about it, just regular text
Created attachment 52396 [details] sample doc - font manually set to Arial, then typed the text...
I haven't been able to reproduce it. Neither by loading the bugdoc nor by typing it manually. Does it happen when you load the bugdoc or only when typing? What kind of Linux are you on? @es: Can you reproduce it?
It doesn't matter whether you type it or not, sorry if tha was misleading. The problem occurs always, when opening an existing doc and when creating a new document. But it only happens when the "METNEW.TTF" is installed. If I remove it from ~/.fonts OOo correctly uses Arial, if I put it back, the problem reoccurs. Already the preview in the Font-Dropdown is affected, not only the text in the document itself. And having a closer look at the list, I notice that the Metallica New font is not listed (as opposed to OOo 2.3.1 where it was available) (and no, font-replacement is not activated in the options) Not sure what you mean with "type of linux" - I'm runnning gnome on a system that was once a Mandrake 9.0 installation, now running kernel 2.6.24.3
Reproducible with that particular font METNEW.TTF. METNEW.TTF installed: Selection of Arial results into font face of METNEW.TTF. See also that the font face of Arial has changed to the one of METNEW.TTF in the font preview of the font selection combo box.
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".