Public bug reported:

As of version 5.3, LibreOffice no longer supports Type 1 fonts, making
these commonly used fonts unusable by default. See:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104701.
>From the perspective of ordinary users, their documents will have
stopped working for no apparent reason. While it is possible to convert
the fonts manually, such users have no idea how font formats work, where
to find the files, or how to convert them. Furthermore, they are
difficult to find online. The only obvious results I got was the GitHub
repository created recently by the original commissioners:
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts.

In my mind, there are two possible solutions: (1) provide separate
packages for Type 1 and OTF, and (2) provide both as one package. It
looks like Fedora has done #2:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1496466 (comment 26). I
prefer #1, since either or both can be installed by default, and the
user can install/remove them independently as well. Several other font
packages work like this already.

Ideally this would be done in time for 18.04 LTS, since it is highly
relevant to users updating from 16.04 LTS, which predated the relevant
change in LibreOffice.

** Affects: fonts-urw-base35 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  Provide URW Base 35 fonts in OTF format

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