The MSI installer still uses Tahoma 8 (Windows 2000/XP) as its UI font. Since Vista, the platform’s UI font is Segoe UI 9. The installer should match that. (At this point we should not be concerned about XP: this font is not installed by default in that platform, but any user who at some point installed a Windows Live application should have it... But the main point is, XP has reached end of life!)
Reasonable to me -> New
Under instsetoo_native one can git grep for "Tahoma" -- 35 lines match. However, it is not enough to replace the font, one has to check every dialog for text cut-offs, and resize controls as needed.
MS documentation suggests that Segoe UI does not form correctly below 9 pt, so should be avoided below that point size. Meaning as Andras suggests for the easy hack that dialogs will need to be resized & checked to avoid any cutoff. Also, do we localize the installer on Windows builds, and does a similar font family change need to be applied for localization? Or do we depend on the localized OS to make the font substitution. I believe it is the later, but do we need any adjustments for the localization? =-ref-= https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn742483%28v=vs.85%29.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn614134%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/74185/
Roman Kuznetsov committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/d8932ff5df0939b5c5e378b7ad0a63a25df5b3b0%5E%21 tdf#99891 Update installer fonts to match newer versions of Windows It will be available in 6.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Roman Kuznetsov committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-6-3": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/498dfee819286f6c13278a0b8fcab85611a6feee%5E%21 tdf#99891 Update installer fonts to match newer versions of Windows It will be available in 6.3.0.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #3) > Also, do we localize the installer on Windows builds, and does a similar > font family change need to be applied for localization? Or do we depend on > the localized OS to make the font substitution. I believe it is the later, > but do we need any adjustments for the localization? I don't know the answer to this question either, but the simplified Chinese installer got bitten by this change, see bug 128674.