[Bug 163140] Add an option to fully embed fonts when exporting to PDF

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163140

V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Blocks|                            |103378
                 CC|                            |libreoffice-ux-advise at lists
                   |                            |.freedesktop.org,
                   |                            |mikekaganski at hotmail.com,
                   |                            |vsfoote at libreoffice.org
           Keywords|                            |needsDevEval, needsUXEval

--- Comment #1 from V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> ---
IIUC our font embedding (File -> Properties -> Font tab) subsets into ODF, but
with poppler export to PDF it also renames the font to meet PDF needs. Would we
need to add an 'Export' control(s) to the Font tab?

Also there are font file format issues with .cff, .woff, .otf, .ttf and then
each font carries its own permissions as to allowing subset or full-embedding
as licensing.

Seems a real can of worms to attempt full font embedding.

An equally viable approach for users needing to publish to PDF might be
authoring with "do not require embedding" fonts, the "base 14" Courier
(Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique), Helvetica (Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold
Oblique), Times (Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic), Symbol, and ITC Zapf
Dingbats

Which is what we've already done with fields in our PDF forms export to assure
our exported form fields are fully editable.

Just not seeing the need to attempt this.


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103378
[Bug 103378] [META] PDF export bugs and enhancements
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