Add carlito and caladea fonts to libreoffice Recommends list

Bug #1612114 reported by John Pye
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
libreoffice (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

See here:
https://wiki.debian.org/SubstitutingCalibriAndCambriaFonts

One of the easiest things we can do to make LibreOffice documents look good when importing .docx and .pptx is to have fonts that follow the metrics of popular Microsoft Office fonts, specifically Calibri and Cambria. The fonts 'Carlito' and 'Caladea' are already in the Ubuntu repositories, but they are not installed by default. It makes a lot of sense to install them by default with LibreOffice.

If you want I can give you examples of crappy-looking PPTX imports before, and then much nicer, after installing these fonts.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - make carlito and caladea fonts required for libreoffice
+ Add carlito and caladea fonts to libreoffice Recommends list
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John Pye (jdpipe) wrote :

The suggestion was to make them Required rather than Recommended, because so many Office documents use those fonts, and those documents looks terrible when other fonts are substituted -- it will turn users off LO.

Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Dominik (dominalien) wrote :

IMO these should be part of standard Ubuntu installation, or at least required by Libreoffice. The user experience when opening documents written in MS Office in its standard fonts is currently terrible. Seems like a very easy change, it's surprising it hasn't been implemented yet.

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James Walters (iamjameswalters) wrote :

Yeah, I agree. Is there a reason this bug hasn't been tackled yet?

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