Bug 124880 - culmus-fancy fonts and probably other PFA format fonts not accessible in Libreoffice
Summary: culmus-fancy fonts and probably other PFA format fonts not accessible in Libr...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.2.2.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
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Reported: 2019-04-22 08:30 UTC by eladhen2
Modified: 2019-04-22 11:26 UTC (History)
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Description eladhen2 2019-04-22 08:30:53 UTC
Description:
In Libreoffice 6 + the culmus-fancy fonts don't appear even though they are installed in the system. These fonts are in PFA format. This is a regression, as in Libreoffice 5.1 there is no problem using these fonts. This possibly affects other PFA fonts.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install the culmus-fancy font package
2. Run Libreoffice 6+
3. search for culmus-fancy fonts (such as Ozrad CLM, Anka CLM)

Actual Results:
They don't appear as optional fonts.

Expected Results:
They appear as optional fonts (as is the case in Libreoffice 5.1)


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
manually adding TTF versions of these fonts from here ( https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/culmus-fancy-ttf ) and the fonts appear, which strengthen the suspicion that this regression is to do with PFA fonts.
Comment 1 Julien Nabet 2019-04-22 08:50:11 UTC
Khaled: do we still support PFA fonts?
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2019-04-22 11:03:54 UTC
El'ad:

* Can you check earlier release versions, to figure out when since when this was broekn?
* Can you try reproducing using non-RTL-language PFA fonts?
Comment 3 Maxim Monastirsky 2019-04-22 11:26:04 UTC
We no longer support Type 1 fonts.

Source: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3#Feature_removal_.2F_deprecation

See also discussion in Bug 104701.