https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66356
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 66356
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: FORMATTING: "Hoefler Text" font-rendering problem on
Mac
Severity: normal
Classification: Unclassified
OS: Mac OS X (All)
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: Other
Whiteboard: BSA
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 4.0.0.3 release
Component: Writer
Product: LibreOffice
Created attachment 81672
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Screenshot of LibreOffice bug side-by-side with NeoOffice's correct rendering
of font
Problem description:
There is a font on the Mac called "Hoefler Text", an elegant serif font,
Apple's version of Garamond. In the latest LibreOffice (4.0.4), and earlier,
text formatted as Hoefler Text is rendered--incorrectly--as an ordinary-looking
sans-serif font. If the same text is changed to bold or italic, the text is
shown in the correct, elegant, bold or italic serif font, but if it is not
formatted as bold or italic, the problem persists--the wrong font is rendered.
I have not noticed any similar problem with any other Apple font.
This problem also occurs in OpenOffice, but not in NeoOffice, and not in any
other application on the Mac that I have tried. The font is rendered properly
in such diverse apps as Thunderbird mail composer, Finale and MuseScore
music-writing apps, and the native Mac apps TextEdit and FontBook.
I have attached a screenshot of a LibreOffice window and a NeoOffice window,
side-by-side, both with four lower-case and upper-case alphabets formatted as
Hoefler Text, in regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. It is quite obvious
from the screenshot that the upright (regular) text is rendered as the wrong
font in LibreOffice.
Also note in the example that in NeoOffice, when a word ends in "t" and is
formatted as Hoefler Text italic (both bold and not bold), the final "t" has a
fancy little trailing curlicue (sorry, I don't know the proper typographical
name for it). LibreOffice does not do that, which I believe to be another bug
in the rendering of this font.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Format text as "Hoefler Text" regular, upright text, not italic or bold.
Current behavior:
Some unrelated sans-serif font is rendered.
Expected behavior:
The correct elegant serif font should be rendered.
Operating System: Mac OS X
Version: 4.0.0.3 release
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