[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 130181] LibreOffice Writer - Automatically Embed Fonts - Enhancement Request

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130181

--- Comment #6 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski@hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to stefane.guevremont from comment #5)
> Conversely, would an option like "Embed only characters used in
> document" be an available option, or an interesting feature to suggest?

While *that* would be a valid enhancement (in the sense that it's missing from
the suite; and that there are use cases for it), personally I would oppose that
suggestion. Embedding a font only partly effectively makes documents kind of
"read-only": on the target system, where the font is not installed, the
document would be rendered fine, but editing it would be either disabled
(because fonts in it don't allow to use other glyphs), or impaired (because any
glyph not embedded would use a substitution). IMO, an electronic document in
native format is meant for possible future edition; and font embedding should
not decrease its functionality. OTOH, there are formats specifically created
for archiving purposes: PDF only embeds glyphs used in the document, just what
you want.

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