John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I can now confirm the following:
> 
> It does not happen just with Junicode. It happens with Bitstream Charter
> and Sans, FreeSans and FreeSerif, Liberation Sans and Serif, Linux
> Libertine, Nimbus Sans and Serif, and Verdana. And it does not happen
> just with bold, it also happens with italic and bold-italic.
> 
> In OOo the program will substitute a generic glyph. In most other
> applications (KWord, AbiWord, Scribus) the glyph drops out and you see
> an empty square box on screen. In printout there is a space where the
> glyph is supposed to be.

My guess is, that the font packages for the fonts which are affected
contain multiple font files for the same family, one for regular text,
one for bold, one for italic, etc., but the amount of glyphs in these
fonts are not the same. I.e. glyphs which are present in the Regular
font, are missing from the Bold font, etc. In those cases, you will see
the described behavior.

To confirm this, you can open the ttf files in
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ with 'fontforge' and compare if the glyphs in
the Regular and Bold (Italic, ...) fonts match up. If they don't (what I
suspect) then it's an upstream font bug.

Thanks for testing.

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Glyphs drop out when bold attribute applied
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/351080
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