https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74267
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 74267
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: Revert to system fonts on windows instead of
Liberation fonts
Severity: normal
Classification: Unclassified
OS: Windows (All)
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: Other
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 4.2.0.4 release
Component: Libreoffice
Product: LibreOffice
I am a business user and was looking forward to release 4.2. Now I have just
spent an hour in changing back to the old templates and fonts in
writer/calc/impress and draw because I have to share my documents with people
who don't use LibreOffice and who may not have Liberation fonts on their
systems. I create all documents for internal use in OpenDocument format, but I
need to save many documents for external use in Microsoft formats. Not great,
but unavoidable.
I want to be sure that I know what these documents look like on my client's
systems and I don't want to have to answer questions by my clients about what
cause I am supporting with those strangely-named 'Liberation' fonts.
By making these fonts the default on Windows, you are just introducing
difficulties for many users when they share their documents with others. Using
the default system fonts and then opening them on other operating systems is
not a problem because the Arial etc fonts will be substituted on most other
systems correctly. The reverse is not necessarily true (even if it were on most
systems, users would still be unsure about it).
I know that all of us who are great fans of LibreOffice and Open Source
Software want to ditch the use of Windows system fonts. But fundamentally we
need to make LibreOffice as easy to use and as interoperable with the context
of our users as possible. Forcing liberation fonts on the users is not the
right approach.
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