Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 45927
No need to mess with the display font
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
The Writer code has some code, which deals with the ancient problem, that in the old times when most display fonts were not printable then finding a well matching display font for a printer font required some magic. It does this by measuring the layouted widths of a test string on the output device with the requested font, on the reference device with the requested font and on the output device with the best matching font from the reference device. The problem with the "fixed test string method" is, that this test string often has no relevance to the text which the font is used for. E.g. using an english test string to determine which Thai font to use causes more problems than it solves.
HDU reminder: also see #119763#
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