Bug 104538 - Bitmap fonts are not supposed to show up in font selector anymore
Summary: Bitmap fonts are not supposed to show up in font selector anymore
Status: NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.3.0.0.beta1
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: low trivial
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Blocks: Fonts
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Reported: 2016-12-09 18:45 UTC by Aron Budea
Modified: 2026-03-20 17:21 UTC (History)
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Description Aron Budea 2016-12-09 18:45:31 UTC
As Khaled mentioned, these fonts should be hidden in 5.3 (I believe with the resolution of bug 103514), yet the following bitmap fonts are still in the font list:
-Modern,
-Script.
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2016-12-09 19:16:14 UTC
A clean user profile for your 5.3 install? And, is there actually another TTF or OTF font by those names on system?
Comment 2 V Stuart Foote 2016-12-09 19:23:46 UTC
Oops, wait I'm seeing them also on Windows 10 Pro with

Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: a9f56091b6422ec8c42f09b8472200ae4ab12548
CPU Threads: 8; OS Version: Windows 6.19; UI Render: GL; 
TinderBox: Win-x86@42, Branch:master, Time: 2016-12-05_23:12:26
Locale: en-US (en_US); Calc: CL

Getting some weird fallback in the Special Character dialog, and the font names is showing (not italicized) on the Toolbar formatting droplist.

Hmmm...
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2017-12-10 16:43:51 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2019-12-11 03:38:13 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2021-12-11 04:21:20 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Heiko Tietze 2024-08-07 14:26:19 UTC
Bug 103514 "MS bitmap fonts (Courier, MS Sans Serif, MS Serif) not displayed with OpenGL rendering" is fixed

This was a successful workaround https://askubuntu.com/questions/1039763/how-to-disable-bitmap-fonts
Comment 7 Buovjaga 2026-03-20 16:56:10 UTC
(In reply to Aron Budea from comment #0)
> As Khaled mentioned, these fonts should be hidden in 5.3 (I believe with the
> resolution of bug 103514), yet the following bitmap fonts are still in the
> font list:
> -Modern,
> -Script.

Is this still valid? I'm not seeing such fonts on Windows, but maybe the OS also moved on.

Version: 26.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64)
Build ID: 38ea6c42fd0bfdb0904d182627229cf224c1b822
CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26200); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 8 V Stuart Foote 2026-03-20 17:21:04 UTC
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #7)
> (In reply to Aron Budea from comment #0)
> > As Khaled mentioned, these fonts should be hidden in 5.3 (I believe with the
> > resolution of bug 103514), yet the following bitmap fonts are still in the
> > font list:
> > -Modern,
> > -Script.
> 
> Is this still valid? I'm not seeing such fonts on Windows, but maybe the OS
> also moved on.
> 
> Version: 26.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64)
> Build ID: 38ea6c42fd0bfdb0904d182627229cf224c1b822
> CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26200); UI render: Skia/Raster;
> VCL: win
> Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
> Calc: threaded

You can check with attachment 128326 [details] test doc from bug 103514
Called out in the paragraph styles, so listed in font lb, but get fall back. Otherwise if present on system, I don't believe they are available to assign--which is the desired handling.