https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145061

Roman Kuznetsov <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Roman Kuznetsov <[email protected]> ---
Kevin, LO has dropped Type1 font support in 2016 year

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2016-October/075652.html

Below is some excerpt:

* Bitmap fonts on Windows (Michael)
    + no good physical font API on Windows
       + DirectWrite provides one.
       + doesn't work with Bitmap Fonts.
    + Office 2013 dropped bitmap / Type1 fonts and more long ago.
    + Biting us with Harfbuzz in some cases.
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103514
    + an issue for the WinXP support (Cloph)
       + Harfbuzz doesn't support that.
         (and will not support Type1 fonts)
       + 5.3 will be the last with current rendering
       + see no point in also support bitmap fonts in 5.4
       + thought Khaled pushed a patch to make it work on WinXP (Caolan)
           + but happy to loose bitmap fonts.
       + we get a fallback font anyway (Michael)
    => abandoning bitmap / Type 1 fonts etc. if not DirectWrite supported in
future.

So I'm not sure about your suggestion...

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