Bug 107220 - Support 'rand' feature
Summary: Support 'rand' feature
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
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5.3.2.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL: https://www.microsoft.com/typography/...
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Blocks: Font-Rendering
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Reported: 2017-04-17 07:46 UTC by Volga
Modified: 2019-04-10 22:12 UTC (History)
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Description Volga 2017-04-17 07:46:00 UTC
Description:
The 'rand' (Randomize) feature can be used to produce randomized variants of a character, and this feature is suitable to calligraphic styled font. HarfBuzz developers doesn’t decided to get implement it, so we need to get our implementation.

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Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0
Comment 1 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2017-04-19 16:52:54 UTC
Set to enhancement.
For me this enhancement request should be opened in the Harfbuzz bugzilla, not against LibreOffice.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 2 Volga 2017-04-20 14:33:09 UTC
Well, I have reviewed their repo, but they won’t implement it. Maybe we can require their developer to add API to expose the who alternate glyphs under this feature tag, than we make our implementation to select casually.

See: https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/427
Comment 3 Volga 2017-08-27 10:28:59 UTC
If HarfBuzz making this feature works as 'salt' feature, then we can create an algorithm to make this feature works as expected.
Comment 4 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2017-08-27 10:36:15 UTC
Hi Khaled,

What do you think about that?

Best regards. JBF
Comment 5 ⁨خالد حسني⁩ 2017-08-28 03:12:03 UTC
If someone wants to work on this, all power to them. Otherwise the only font I know that uses the rand feature is a font I created myself to tests its support, so very low priority.
Comment 6 Thomas Lendo 2017-09-09 23:30:48 UTC
Set to NEW according to comment 5.
Comment 7 Volga 2017-12-07 06:13:29 UTC
(In reply to Khaled Hosny from comment #5)
> If someone wants to work on this, all power to them. Otherwise the only font
> I know that uses the rand feature is a font I created myself to tests its
> support, so very low priority.
It’s also hard to investigate which commercial fonts including this feature.
Comment 8 Volga 2018-01-14 16:51:58 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 Volga 2018-02-19 16:26:23 UTC
Everyone can focusing on this pull request at GitHub:
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/pull/803
Comment 10 ⁨خالد حسني⁩ 2019-04-10 22:12:13 UTC
HarfBuzz already support this now.