Steps: 1) Open Writer 2) Open Styles and Formatting tab in sidebar 3) Switch to character styles 4) Notice that one style has 7 square boxes where letters should be This relates to work going on in bug 90646. Version: 5.1.0.0.alpha1+ Build ID: cf9fbdb379e2935677a73ced513d7faf855c299c TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@70-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2015-09-05_00:34:47 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8)
@Jay, Can not confirm on a system with OpenSymbol font installed. The Characters style preview in the Sidebar deck for "Bullets" is rendered readable. Is this an issue with installer adding/removing fonts? Version: 5.1.0.0.alpha1+ Build ID: d417059dae303685de7aa0f4b1c192ffcf5304d5-GL TinderBox: Win-x86@39, Branch:master, Time: 2015-09-05_09:23:01 Locale: en-US (en_US)
I reproduce the problem with version 5.0.3.0+ built at home under Ubuntu 15.04 x86-64. For bullets character style I see 5 square boxes (bullets = puces in French). Of course OpenSymbol is installed on my computer. Best regards. JBF
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1) > @Jay, > > Can not confirm on a system with OpenSymbol font installed. Yes i have the fonts-opensymbol installed on my system from the trusty-updates (Ubuntu 14.04) repo. Could it be that there is a newer version available? > The Characters style preview in the Sidebar deck for "Bullets" is rendered > readable. Got a screenshot? > Is this an issue with installer adding/removing fonts? Not likely on linux.
Created attachment 118488 [details] clip of Character styles master on Windows as requested...
OpenSymbol does not contain alphabetical latin characters. So Bullets is not written with this font on your screen copy. So I guess the problem is a fallback problem. Best regards. JBF
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*** Bug 98509 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I also reproduce this problem of the "Bullets" Character Style name (in the "Styles and Formatting" pane of LibreOffice Writer, which appears when pressing the F11 shortcut key) appearing as 7 "squares" instead of appearing as the word "Bullets". I'm using LO (LibreOffice) 5.1.4.2 running on Ubuntu MATE 16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus) - 64-bits I do have the package "fonts-opensymbol" installed (but NOT the package "ming-fonts-opensymbol" installed, in case that's relevant): $ dpkg -s fonts-opensymbol Package: fonts-opensymbol Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: fonts Installed-Size: 453 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Source: libreoffice (1:5.1.4-0ubuntu1) Version: 2:102.7+LibO5.1.4-0ubuntu1 Replaces: ttf-opensymbol Provides: ttf-opensymbol Recommends: fontconfig Description: OpenSymbol TrueType font This package contains the OpenSymbol TrueType font included in LibreOffice. This font contains symbols (like fonts as Wingdings(tm)), bullets (needed for bullets in LibreOffice) and non-latin character Homepage: http://www.libreoffice.org Original-Maintainer: Debian LibreOffice Maintainers <debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org>
The summary line should be a *summary* not bug description
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-4": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=65afee1494ac1f71b39e4b3dc1ced52c5f21de54&h=libreoffice-5-4 tdf#93968 bullet char style preview is unreadable, cause uses opensymbol It will be available in 5.4.0.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
fixed in master as well
Caolan: I'm assuming the fix only fixes this issue for styles using opensymbol, but ideally the fix should provide an easy means to add and remove particular font names that shouldn't be rendered including popular symbol based fonts like Webdings, Wingdings, Wingdings 2, and Wingdings 3.
Theres a list of such things and a means to do it already in the font preview code in svtools/source/misc/sampletext.cxx as isSymbolFont. I considered exposing that more generally and using that, but that would take more time that I currently have.
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-3": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=d8e6d7a86adb102ae1bb4df99ef73ebead962105&h=libreoffice-5-3 tdf#93968 bullet char style preview is unreadable, cause uses opensymbol It will be available in 5.3.5. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.