Comment 10 for bug 168658

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Guillermo Espertino (Gez) (gespertino-gmail) wrote : Re: [Bug 168658] Re: font substitution is silent

I like the idea, but I see a problem.
First, automatic and multiple replacements are a problem. You can have, say
5 replacements and three or them are fine but the other three aren't. How
do you tackle that?
I mean, if the replacement feature did a good job finding similar fonts for
a part of the replaced fonts but a crappy job with the rest, how do you fix
it with your dialog?
The "select all the affected objects" box doesn't help at all.
In my opinion, automatic replacement is a double-edged knife. For
typography purists there's no such thing as a replacement, and the only
replacement that can be tolerated is when you have the right font but it
has a slightly different name.
When you care about typography you want your fonts to be the right fonts,
not others.
And doing automatic replacements without highlighting the replaced fonts is
dangerous. Sometimes a replaced text object in the middle of others can
spoil the entire piece if you send it to print like that.

If a dialog like yours is used, we need to see what elements were changed
in their context and offer the user the ability to approve or not the
change, but in a single font basis.