It’s definitely something that is used when it is important that the font that is rendered in the document is the same as the original - for example, when creating a master document that is to be exported to PDF and sent to a publisher.
-- Chris Tapp opensou...@keylevel.com www.keylevel.com ---- You can tell you're getting older when your car insurance gets real cheap! > On 29 Nov 2023, at 10:06, Regis Perdreau <regis.perdr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks, I'll check it out. > > Regards, > > Régis Perdreau > > > > Le mer. 29 nov. 2023 à 10:37, Caolán McNamara <caolan.mcnam...@collabora.com > <mailto:caolan.mcnam...@collabora.com>> a écrit : >> On Tue, 2023-11-28 at 17:08 +0100, Regis Perdreau wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Is there any documentation anywhere about font embedding ? >> > It's not in the ODF standard >> > Is it a function that nobody use then nobody care ? >> > I think it's interesting to know why it was implemented. >> >> I don't remember too much about it at this distance in time but with >> some git log I get to an initial implementation in 2013 of >> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=989d0953a4d69bef3c8aba8e9dc7758194adcdc4 >> referencing the 2011 bugzilla entry of >> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42195 >> >> Where the odf spec has: "Font face declarations support the font >> descriptor attributes and elements described in §20.8.3 of [SVG]." >> and svg allows: <svg:font-face-uri xlink:href="whatever.ttf"> >> >> In the UI you can get to this IIRC with file, properties, font and >> "Font Embedding". After the original commit I believe similar was >> implemented for OOXML support.
