A. den Oudsten wrote
... Is there an argument for the decision to drop Type1. I use them in LibreOffice since it exists.
Several, but at its core PS Type 1 fonts have been on borrowed time since TrueType and OpenType were implemented. Users should have replaced or converted their fonts. Of note, due to lack of PS Type 1 support in DirectWrite/Direct2D layout Microsoft dropped Type 1 font use from Office 2013. In moving LibreOffice forward with HarfBuzz based common layout, support for PS Type 1 and bitmap fonts was dropped by design and ESC decision [1]. At 5.3 with the "new" HarfBuzz based common layout there is simply no support for the glyph mappings used with Type 1 PS fonts. And at 5.4 (current master) the "old" framework has been completely stripped out.
What/who can I approach to retract this decision?
No one, the ESC decision was made and development proceeded accordingly. Functionally it can not be reversed as there is no support for PS Type 1 or Bitmap fonts in current HarfBuzz based common layout. The HarfBuzz project would have to implement support for Type 1 and Bitmap fonts--and there is not much interest in doing so. A representative LibreOffice WONTFIX Bugzilla issue is tdf#104701 - PS Type 1 URW fonts missing in LibreOffice... <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104701#c10> , and for the related dropping support for old MS Bitmap fonts on Windows tdf#103514 -- MS bitmap fonts... not displayed with OpenGL rendering <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103514#c10> =-ref-= http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/minutes-of-ESC-call-tc4198435.html -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Shortage-of-Fonts-in-LibreOffice-5-3-0-3-tp4208808p4209180.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted