Bug 113685

Summary:	Saving a spreadsheet as XLS(X) changes font from Liberation Sans to Arial
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Aron Budea <aron.budea>
Component:	Calc	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	telesto
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	filter:xls
Version:	4.2.0.4 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95953
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Bug Blocks:	108897, 109072

Description Aron Budea 2017-11-07 08:05:13 UTC

Start a new spreadsheet, add some text and save it as XLS/XLSX.
Reopen spreadsheet.

=> Font has changed to Arial.

Font is preserved if you choose a font like Linux Biolinum, however Carlito is also substituted as Calibri.

Observed using LO 5.4.3.2 & 4.2.0.4 / Windows 7. In 4.1.0.4 the default font is Arial.

Comment 1 Michael Meeks 2017-11-09 09:49:54 UTC

This is a feature-not-bug - we do this to ensure the widest possible metric compatibility and round-trip fidelity. If we save Liberation as Liberation - then it will simply not be present on typical Windows machines - and as such the user will get mangled metrics, and a broken display.

You can check out the substitutions in VCL.xcu in the source tree =) we have lots of them, if some are missing - we should expand that.

Comment 2 Aron Budea 2021-01-07 16:49:05 UTC

*** Bug 139473 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***