[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 103080] A new default set of bundled fonts

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103080

--- Comment #31 from Yannick.D <ya.della at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Michael Meeks from comment #30)
> If by default we create documents that hard-code fonts that are not
> available (or have no metrically compatible version) on the majority
> platform - we really hurt our users' ability to save in eg.

I really didn‘t know that - Liberation/C-fonts are correctly replaced by their
counterparts when opened in Word. Cool! (I always thought of compatibility the
other way round.)

(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #29)
> The removal isnt about the size, its about its completeness as a font
> family, its limited unicode coverage, how popular the font is and its future
> potential.

Thank you very much for explaining the thought process, Yousuf!

Still seems a bit half hearted to me. But obviously priorities are a bit
different here (see bug 35538, bug 98596): Source family - despite sorely
missing the still wip italics – is even now much more complete in terms of
OpenType features, font weights, coverage, thought and polish than many of the
other fonts. I rather see it has most "future potential" as a third family
(DejaVu – legacy, Noto - universal language/unicode support, Source – modern).

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