Dear Maintainer,

LibreOffice comes with a set of fonts to have no problem for sharing files between systems, these fonts are removed from the Debian package.

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Fonts

The problem is that these fonts are not all packaged for Debian,

- Open Sans: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754785
- PT Serif: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787898
- Source Code Pro: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736681
- Source Sans Pro: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683774

and for some there are problems:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=753839

So one can not exchange document with Debian systems without deconstruct the document.

For fonts that have not yet Debian package, please, can you leave them in the libreoffice-common?


Regards.

severity 827911 wishlist
retitle 827911 libreoffice-common: please ship LibreOffice-bundled fonts missing from Debian otherwise
thanks

Hi,

Sorry, but I disagree. It's not a bug in the package because building with
--without-fonts was a deliberate choice.

It's more a wish to add them -> wishlist. And retitling accordingly.

IMHO it's not the job of an office suite to ship fonts. (Except here
maybe OpenSymbol.)

Get them packaged in Debian and the problem will be gone..

Thus I *do* see that this not-packaged-fonts thing is a problem, but I am not
sure we should ship them in -common. We'd step on the new packages' toes
if we put it in /usr/share/truetype directly and there might be reasons why
they are not packaged...

Regards,

Rene

Le 22/06/2016 à 16:26, Rene Engelhard a écrit :

Hi,

Thank you for your reply.

Ok.

It is true that usually the fonts are not provided by the software,
whether on Linux, Mac or Windows.

But the problem is the document exchange between workstations with
different OS. If a font is not installed on a machine, the document is
unstructured, text out tables. a document on one page is on two pages, etc.

For these reasons, LibreOffice (upstream, Mac, Windows) comes with a set
of free fonts. When using these fonts we are sure to have no problem for
sharing document.

My direction was clear, if the documents can not be exchanged with
Linux, workstations go to Windows with Word. Currently I have manually
installed the fonts used in "/usr/local/share/fonts/". I downloaded the
fonts on Google Fonts website.

There are wnpp to package these fonts, but still no packets.

For me, as long as the fonts are not packaged separately by Debian, they
must be provided by LibreOffice package like upstream.



Regards.

Dear submitter,

as the package libreoffice has just been removed from the Debian archive
experimental we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

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