Usage of "full" version fonts breaks unit tests when using system fonts
Mattia Verga
libreoffice at sparebit.simplelogin.com
Sat Feb 15 10:43:07 UTC 2025
In Fedora we had to exclude several UnitTests because they break due to
missing glyphs in fonts.
After some digging, as I understand, LO unit tests are written against
bundled provided fonts, but some of these are using the "full" version,
while fonts provided within Linux distributions are built with the
"hinted" or "unhinted" versions. The full version is made by adding the
missing glyphs from the base font family, thus they are duplicating
glyphs with increased size, so it's not something downstream
distribution want to fix. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2334719#c5
Looking into /external/more_fonts files, these are the fonts using the
Full version:
ExternalPackage_noto_kufi_arabic.mk
ExternalPackage_noto_naskh_arabic.mk
ExternalPackage_noto_sans.mk
ExternalPackage_noto_sans_armenian.mk
ExternalPackage_noto_sans_georgian.mk
ExternalPackage_noto_sans_hebrew.mk
ExternalPackage_noto_sans_lao.mk
ExternalPackage_noto_sans_lisu.mk
ExternalPackage_noto_serif_armenian.mk
ExternalPackage_noto_serif_georgian.mk
ExternalPackage_noto_serif_hebrew.mk
ExternalPackage_noto_serif_lao.mk
It would be nice if those would be set to use the hinted version, but I
don't know if the related tests really require the use of the full
version (can't really understand what the tests are actually testing...).
Mattia
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