https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161941
Bug ID: 161941
Summary: Back out the bundling of "Google DocRepair" fonts
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 25.2.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
A few days ago, a changeset was submitted to merge some fonts related to
something called the "Google DocRepair project":
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/169765
The fonts for which substitutes were merged are:
Agency FB
Baskerville Old Face
Berlin Sans FB
Cooper Black
Lucida Calligraphy
Lucida Grande
Lucida Handwriting
To my knowledge, all of these fonts are only used rarely by office document
authors. Some of them have been prevalent in print in the past (like
Baskerville and Cooper Black), others have been used in desktop environment UI
(like Lucida Grande). Agency FB was apparently used in the Crysis 2 game...
Anyway, I believe none of these would merit bundling with LibreOffice (and hey
won't help with "doc repair") - let alone a set of fonts whose only merit is
being metrically equivalent to these.
Let me quote the relevant comment exchange on the Changeset:
> Caolan: https://github.com/docrepair-fonts These are various fonts that
> google has created to provide metrically equivalent fonts to fonts available
> in MSOffice to improve document layout for MSOffice compatibility. Similar to
> "Liberation Serif" for Times New Roman and "Carlito" for Calibri
>
> Ilmari: Sure, but why now? Do we have statistics on how widespread their use
> is?
>
> Andras Timar:
> > Sure, but why now?
> Because we discovered these fonts now.
> * Do we have statistics on how widespread their use is?
> I assume Google did the research and decided to develop these fonts
Unfounded assumption :-(
Please undo the Changeset and unbundle these fonts.
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