Public bug reported:
On my system, one of the font families I have installed is Fontin Sans,
which is available here for reference:
https://www.exljbris.com/fontinsans.html
LibreOffice Writer does not appear to be able to "see" the Regular
variant of that font. It can see and use Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic
appropriately, but registers the Small Caps variant in place of Regular,
so that any text set in Fontin Sans is rendered in the Small Caps
variant. Specifying "Fontin Sans Rg" as the font name leads to
LibreOffice Writer showing that font as nonexistent.
All variants of Fontin Sans, including Regular, are properly installed
on the system and available to other applications such as Text Editor.
My font cache is up to date. I have used this font family for years in
other applications in the Windows world such as Microsoft Word and Adobe
InDesign and it behaves appropriately there. It shows up correctly in
Ubuntu's Font Viewer as well.
The correct behavior for LibreOffice Writer would be to render any text
where Fontin Sans is specified in the Regular variant, while making the
Small Caps variant available as a separate entry in the font menu. It
handles the companion font family Fontin (which is a serif font) in this
way with no difficulty.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: libreoffice-writer 4:7.5.7-0ubuntu0.23.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-35.35-generic 6.2.16
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-35-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 24 22:02:03 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-12-01 (1788 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm-256color
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to lunar on 2023-04-21 (186 days ago)
** Affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lunar wayland-session
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2040353
Title:
Writer is not able to access a font on system that is available to
other applications
Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
On my system, one of the font families I have installed is Fontin
Sans, which is available here for reference:
https://www.exljbris.com/fontinsans.html
LibreOffice Writer does not appear to be able to "see" the Regular
variant of that font. It can see and use Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic
appropriately, but registers the Small Caps variant in place of
Regular, so that any text set in Fontin Sans is rendered in the Small
Caps variant. Specifying "Fontin Sans Rg" as the font name leads to
LibreOffice Writer showing that font as nonexistent.
All variants of Fontin Sans, including Regular, are properly installed
on the system and available to other applications such as Text Editor.
My font cache is up to date. I have used this font family for years in
other applications in the Windows world such as Microsoft Word and
Adobe InDesign and it behaves appropriately there. It shows up
correctly in Ubuntu's Font Viewer as well.
The correct behavior for LibreOffice Writer would be to render any
text where Fontin Sans is specified in the Regular variant, while
making the Small Caps variant available as a separate entry in the
font menu. It handles the companion font family Fontin (which is a
serif font) in this way with no difficulty.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: libreoffice-writer 4:7.5.7-0ubuntu0.23.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-35.35-generic 6.2.16
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-35-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 24 22:02:03 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-12-01 (1788 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64
(20181017.3)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm-256color
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to lunar on 2023-04-21 (186 days ago)
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