Bug 158589 - Add option to save Font Replacement Table
Summary: Add option to save Font Replacement Table
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 157415
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.6.4.1 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Font-Substitution
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Reported: 2023-12-07 21:43 UTC by J22Gim
Modified: 2023-12-08 21:49 UTC (History)
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Description J22Gim 2023-12-07 21:43:39 UTC
Description:
Some users spend quite some time creating a Font Replacement Table to avoid proprietary fonts. It would be nice to offer them the option to save the table so they can retrieve it eg. in case of a fresh install.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Options -> LibreOffice -> Fonts
2. Populate the Replacement Table
3. Install a fresh copy of LO


Actual Results:
You have to re-populate the Replacement Table

Expected Results:
There is a button 'Load replacement table' that populates the table.
Note I am not suggesting that the fonts have to be saved (this is obviously out of the scope of LO), but only the replacement table. 
If you load the table and there is a font that is not installed (either in the 'Font' or 'Replace with' columns) then it could be shown in italics following the current behavior of LO when you open a document that is supposed to be in a font that you have not installed. Then the user can know that entry in the Replacement Table is not going to make any difference because one or both of those fonts need to be installed first.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
This is an example of a very useful and rather long replacement table:

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/09/08/libreoffice-tt-replacing-microsoft-fonts/

It must be quite tedious to populate it one by one.
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2023-12-08 21:49:26 UTC
Already available as an extension, YMMV:

https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/42001

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 157415 ***