Bug 141095

Summary:	A note is needed about font embeddable permissions
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	himajin100000, olivier.hallot
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145967
Whiteboard:	target:7.2.0
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	80430

Description Mike Kaganski 2021-03-18 10:24:43 UTC

LibreOffice only embeds fonts that have a license permission for that [1]. That may create surprise in users when some fonts used in documents don't get embedded.

Our relevant help page [2] could include information about that.

For reference, some pages that MS has dedicated to this are [3], [4].

[1] https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/vcl/source/gdi/embeddedfontshelper.cxx?r=042033f1#211
[2] https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/shared/01/prop_font_embed.html
[3] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/about-font-license-restrictions-6be9f366-e722-4751-90a8-165e9c37e985
[4] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/font-faq#document-embedding

Comment 1 Olivier Hallot 2021-03-18 11:20:29 UTC

The Font tab of the Document Properties dialog should also inform user on the font licensing.

Comment 2 Commit Notification 2021-03-22 10:00:10 UTC

Olivier Hallot committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/425d5cedb8b04e845c26bf4d1018900106e87166

tdf#141095 A note about font embeddable permissions