[Bug 159950] Offer to download & install missing fonts from online sources

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159950

--- Comment #3 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1)
> Currently no viable "online source" for Aptos (it is cloud only licensing)
> nor for a metrically equivalent font. 

What about this? :

https://www.techspot.com/downloads/downloadnow/7566/?evp=05d5172f044d732dc42277fe5969fca6&file=10967

now, obviously, that's not a very stable source for fonts, but for manual
downloading, right now, without explicitly accepting any special license -
there it is.

> While individuals can find the Aptos font archive to download, with
> questionable license/usage rights--but that only accommodates individual
> users.

But that's what I'm suggesting: LO will allow individual users to download,
individually, some fonts, from

> The LO deployed crosextra Carlito <--> Calibri mapping has been functional
> until now for interoperability with MS Office, but that is no longer enough.

Was it really? IIANM, this font substitution is not defined by default.

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