RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Font is different on Screen and in Print

I became curious about this to see what LOffice 3.3.2 provides for fonts on Windows.   I couldn't 
find anything to configure, but the font dialog shows a wide variety of fonts that were just 
installed with a different product (WordPerfect X5 Standard) and indicates that all of them will 
also print.  (I didn't do an exhaustive search.)  The font substitution window has no substitutions 
set.  

To experiment further, I created a document with some Amienne text and opened it on a computer 
where it is not installed.  Placing the cursor in the peculiar text (with metrics very messed up) 
and using the Format | Character ... dialog, I see the message "The font has not been installed.  
The closest available font will be used."  (This was in OO.o 3.2.0 and I don't know if LOffice 
3.3.2 does a better job.)  I am certain my HP Deskjet 990cse has no such a font and indeed, it 
prints the same as I see on my screen, with a serif font having terrible metrics. 

I went looking for what there is in terms of PDF font embedding and the Wikipedia article led me to 
this interesting OO.o issue:
<http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20370>.   There are comments from the creation of 
the issue in 2003 until 2010-07-08 when the discussion apparently went elsewhere.  

Concerning the comment on bug 20370 that it should wait until ODF has a provision, I can report 
that the JIRA issue on adding font embedding is rather ambiguous and, in any case, work on it for 
ODF 1.2 was deferred to some future ODF-Next.  This may have happened when incomplete proposals 
were triaged at one point when there was a march to have ODF 1.2 feature complete.  In any case, 
you can see the story since JIRA began being used at 
<http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-228>.  Here's an interesting related one: 
<http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-1285>.

I'd look further at how PDF/A versions handle this, but I am not prepared to pay for the ISO 
specifications.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: NoOp [mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 14:07
To: users@libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Font is different on Screen and in Print

On 05/19/2011 11:44 AM, AndrewB wrote:
...
> Krackedpress: "There use to be an extension that indicated what fonts 
> were in the document and were not installed on your computer.  I do 
> not know if it is still available."
>
> I would love to get my hands on a copy of that, if it's still around.  
> Can you remember what it was called - so I can start hunting?
>
> Now I just have to identify the alleged benefits of hardwired fonts, 
> and how to best take advantage of them.

In linux you can use spadmin; you can configure in the fonts tab. I don't know if there is a 
similar printer utility in LO for Windows.





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