A. den Oudsten wrote
> ...
> Is there an argument for the decision to drop Type1. I use them in 
> LibreOffice since it exists.

Several, but at its core PS Type 1 fonts have been on borrowed time since
TrueType and OpenType were implemented. 

Users should have replaced or converted their fonts.  Of note, due to lack
of PS Type 1 support in DirectWrite/Direct2D layout Microsoft dropped Type 1
font use from Office 2013.  

In moving LibreOffice forward with HarfBuzz based common layout, support for
PS Type 1 and bitmap fonts was dropped by design and ESC decision [1].

At 5.3 with the "new" HarfBuzz  based common layout there is simply no
support for the glyph mappings used with Type 1 PS fonts.  And at 5.4
(current master) the "old" framework has been completely stripped out.


> What/who can I approach to retract this decision?

No one, the ESC decision was made and development proceeded accordingly. 
Functionally it can not be reversed as there is no support for PS Type 1 or
Bitmap fonts  in current  HarfBuzz based common layout.  The HarfBuzz
project would have to implement support for Type 1 and Bitmap fonts--and
there is not much interest in doing so.

A representative LibreOffice WONTFIX Bugzilla issue is  tdf#104701 - PS Type
1 URW fonts missing in LibreOffice...
<https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104701#c10>  , and for
the related dropping support for old MS Bitmap fonts on Windows  tdf#103514
-- MS bitmap fonts... not displayed with OpenGL rendering
<https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103514#c10>  

=-ref-=
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/minutes-of-ESC-call-tc4198435.html



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