Bug 167563 - LibreOffice installs ancient Gentium fonts in Windows
Summary: LibreOffice installs ancient Gentium fonts in Windows
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
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3.3.0 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
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Reported: 2025-07-18 08:10 UTC by d.coomans
Modified: 2025-07-18 08:48 UTC (History)
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Description d.coomans 2025-07-18 08:10:00 UTC 
LibreOffice 2.5 still installs Gentium Basic (2013) and Gentium Book Basic (2013) during setup.
These versions aren’t maintained since 2013. They are now called Gentium and Gentium Book, (‘Basic’ doesn’t exist anymore), see version history https://software.sil.org/gentium/download/previous-versions/

The current version of these fonts is 7.00 - june 2025: https://software.sil.org/gentium/release-7-000/

In my PC install script I install the current Gentium and Gentium Book fonts, but after LibreOffice install I also get these old ‘basic’ fonts which I then remove by the same script.

So I would like to see that LO stops installing the old Gentium Basic fonts or - if they are required for font conversion, update them to the current version.
Comment 1 d.coomans 2025-07-18 08:48:33 UTC 
LibreOffice 25.2.5 that must be of course.