<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">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.<div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>--</div><div><br></div><div>Chris Tapp</div><div>opensource@keylevel.com</div><div>www.keylevel.com</div><div><br></div><div>----</div><div>You can tell you're getting older when your car insurance gets real cheap!</div></div></span></div></div></div></div> </div> <div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 29 Nov 2023, at 10:06, Regis Perdreau <regis.perdreau@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks, I'll check it out. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>Régis Perdreau<br><br></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mer. 29 nov. 2023 à 10:37, Caolán McNamara <<a href="mailto:caolan.mcnamara@collabora.com">caolan.mcnamara@collabora.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 2023-11-28 at 17:08 +0100, Regis Perdreau wrote:<br> > Hi,<br> > <br> > Is there any documentation anywhere about font embedding ?<br> > It's not in the ODF standard<br> > Is it a function that nobody use then nobody care ?<br> > I think it's interesting to know why it was implemented.<br> <br> I don't remember too much about it at this distance in time but with<br> some git log I get to an initial implementation in 2013 of<br> <a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=989d0953a4d69bef3c8aba8e9dc7758194adcdc4" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=989d0953a4d69bef3c8aba8e9dc7758194adcdc4</a><br> referencing the 2011 bugzilla entry of<br> <a href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42195" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42195</a><br> <br> Where the odf spec has: "Font face declarations support the font<br> descriptor attributes and elements described in §20.8.3 of [SVG]."<br> and svg allows: <svg:font-face-uri xlink:href="whatever.ttf"><br> <br> In the UI you can get to this IIRC with file, properties, font and<br> "Font Embedding". After the original commit I believe similar was<br> implemented for OOXML support.<br> </blockquote></div> </div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>