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--- Comment #7 from Yousuf Philips (jay) <philipz85@hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Jean-Francois Nifenecker from comment #4)
The Linux * G fonts are the only ones that allow support for enhanced
typographic management within documents. Using them in conjunction with the
Typography toolbar extension
(http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/typography-toolbar)
contributes to make Writer a true DTP tool. This is why they are used by
some people (myself included) as their template fonts. This means that
removing them from LibO installs would, at best, force to add them
afterward, and, at worse, would fail to show the qualities of Writer,
typographically-wise.
Hence, I strongly disagree with the removal of these fonts. For the time
being, the mere fact they haven't been updated in a while doesn't make them
rubbish, anyway.

I'm all for showing off the features available in LibreOffice, but not sure
that bundling 20MB worth of fonts that maybe used by a very minimal amount of
users is efficient usage of space. We even show these font in a prominent top
section of the top font list combobox when such a space should be taken up by
more important fonts.

Another option would be to remove the fonts from the software installation,
as proposed, and provide a separate font bundle to be downloaded at the very
same place the software is available.

I was speaking yesterday with cloph about creating font collection installers
for cjk fonts, so i guess one could be considered for an old fonts collection,
which would contain all the fonts that were removed.

Besides, I agree with the idea that the proposed cleanup should only be done
after a missing font infobar is available so that users whose documents rely
upon removed fonts be clearly aware of the changes and can take the
appropriate measures.

Doubt we would need to wait for the infobar, but fixing bug 61134 and/or bug
96872 would be more than sufficient to notify users that fonts are missing, if
they havent already noticed how we currently show them that a font is missing.

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