Re: Getting started — Libreoffice

On 16 Aug 2023, at 16:23, Khaled Hosny <khaled@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 16 Aug 2023, at 5:44 PM, Chris Tapp <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Guys,

I’m supporting an organisation that is using LO to create pdfs that are used as inputs to a print-on-demand service, and we have identified a couple of issues that I would like to have a go at resolving:

1) The handling of font names differs between the Windows and MacOS builds, resulting in the rendering differing between the platforms;

This is https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105298, I had a stap at it recently on https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/155455, but it is a complicated issue since macOS have no way of giving us the names we need for windows compatibility, and if we start to read the font name ourselves (like in the change above), more system API become useless (e.g. if we ask for font fallback, we will get names that is different from what we now have on our font list).

I have some ideas to how to handle this, if you are still interested.

Regards,
Khaled

Thanks.

I had tried looking to see if there were open bugs for these, but I hadn’t managed to find them.

Using the Open Sans Google Font, Font Book shows 12 styles:

Regular
Italic
Light
Light Italic
Medium
Medium Italic
Semibold
Semibold Italic
Bold
Bold Italic
ExtraBold
ExtraBold Italic

Within a local build (MacOS) of LO that includes your patch, I see the following Family / Typefaces:

Open Sans / Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic
Open Sans Extra Bold / Regular, Italic
Open Sans Light / Regular, Italic, Bold, Italic
Open Sans Medium / Regular, Italic
Open Sans Semibold / Regular, Italic

Within the latest release, all 12 styles are shown as Typefaces under the “Open Sans” family - which is consistent with the identifiers shown for each font in Font Book.

I am definitely interested in any ideas you have to handle this.

Chris