Embedded fonts

[Chris Tapp]

It’s definitely something that is used when it is important that the font that is rendered in the document is the same as the original - for example, when creating a master document that is to be exported to PDF and sent to a publisher.

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> On 29 Nov 2023, at 10:06, Regis Perdreau <regis.perdreau at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, I'll check it out.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Régis Perdreau
> 
> 
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> Le mer. 29 nov. 2023 à 10:37, Caolán McNamara <caolan.mcnamara at collabora.com <mailto:caolan.mcnamara at collabora.com>> a écrit :
>> On Tue, 2023-11-28 at 17:08 +0100, Regis Perdreau wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > Is there any documentation anywhere about font embedding ?
>> > It's not in the ODF standard
>> > Is it a function that nobody use then nobody care ?
>> > I think it's interesting to know why it was implemented.
>> 
>> I don't remember too much about it at this distance in time but with
>> some git log I get to an initial implementation in 2013 of
>> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=989d0953a4d69bef3c8aba8e9dc7758194adcdc4
>> referencing the 2011 bugzilla entry of
>> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42195
>> 
>> Where the odf spec has: "Font face declarations support the font
>> descriptor attributes and elements described in §20.8.3 of [SVG]."
>> and svg allows: <svg:font-face-uri xlink:href="whatever.ttf">
>> 
>> In the UI you can get to this IIRC with file, properties, font and
>> "Font Embedding". After the original commit I believe similar was
>> implemented for OOXML support.

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