Bug 113007

Summary:	Add a function to load fallback font specified by Windows registry
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Volga <shanshandehongxing>
Component:	LibreOffice	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0.0.0.alpha0+
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows (All)
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118411
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Bug Blocks:	103342, 157526

Description Volga 2017-10-09 08:09:32 UTC

Description:
Windows registery has several paths intended to specify fallback fonts. If LibreOffice imported a document on Windows, but having a font not installed in system, then LibreOffice should load fallback font as the registery specified, unless user specified replacement table via Tools - Options - Fonts. These paths including:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontLink\SystemLink
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontMapperFamilyFallback
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\LanguagePack\SurrogateFallback\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\LanguagePack\SurrogateFallback\ (for 64-bit apps)

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Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0

Comment 1 Volga 2017-10-09 08:17:06 UTC

64-bit version of Windows also has the following registery paths for this purpose:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontLink\SystemLink
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes

Comment 2 Buovjaga 2017-11-07 12:56:02 UTC

Sounds good -> NEW