The installer does not check whether newer versions of the included fonts are already installed. Therefore the latest build of DejaVu fonts 2.33 were overwritten by version 2.32, and Liberation Sans Narrow 1.07 was overwritten by 1.06. I had reported this bug to OpenOffice.org in 2009, but it wasn't fixed by them either. http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98906
Not a real fix, but it is at least a mitigation of damage: LibreOffice 3.4.5 and 3.5 will contain DejaVu 2.33 and Liberation 1.07.1.
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Since LO 4.4, Windows 7
*** Bug 115243 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 111330 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Resurrecting per dupes.
Hopefully Mike Kaganski fixed this once and for all. https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=c91f70f9b0129685737260c04a2e347726f1dedf
Some background FYI. At the time of filing the issue, LibreOffice MSI installer didn't contain font version data, and thus unconditionally copied its fonts. Then, in fix for Bug 76239 (which was actually a dupe for this), versions started to be written to MSI, and so installer should have not downgraded fonts. But the fix was insufficient due to then-lacking of proper library that would correctly parse font files (a workaround was imperfect), so some of fonts were either not processed (otf), or report wrong version (usually unconditional 1.0). The duped bug 115243 is the example of the latter, where the font would have wrong version 1.0 in our MSI DB, while actual version is 0.111, which is less that 1.0, thus LibreOffice assumed to have a later version and "upgraded" with actually lover version. So, as Andras pointed out, we hope to get rid of the problem now since we fixed bug 116581, and Khaled Hosny helped finding the library that reports versions properly. Any future problems of this kind should be reported separately, since it would be bugs in new functionality, as opposed to this one filed against then-absent functionality.