Writer is not able to access a font on system that is available to other applications

[Andy Pearson]

On my system, one of the font families I have installed is Fontin Sans, which is available here for reference: https://www.exljbris.com/fontinsans.html

LibreOffice Writer does not appear to be able to "see" the Regular variant of that font. It can see and use Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic appropriately, but registers the Small Caps variant in place of Regular, so that any text set in Fontin Sans is rendered in the Small Caps variant. Specifying "Fontin Sans Rg" as the font name leads to LibreOffice Writer showing that font as nonexistent.

All variants of Fontin Sans, including Regular, are properly installed on the system and available to other applications such as Text Editor. My font cache is up to date. I have used this font family for years in other applications in the Windows world such as Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign and it behaves appropriately there. It shows up correctly in Ubuntu's Font Viewer as well.

The correct behavior for LibreOffice Writer would be to render any text where Fontin Sans is specified in the Regular variant, while making the Small Caps variant available as a separate entry in the font menu. It handles the companion font family Fontin (which is a serif font) in this way with no difficulty.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: libreoffice-writer 4:7.5.7-0ubuntu0.23.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-35.35-generic 6.2.16
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-35-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 24 22:02:03 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-12-01 (1788 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to lunar on 2023-04-21 (186 days ago)

[Andy Pearson (andyp123)]

After upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04 with LibreOffice 24.2.2.2, the problem is resolved.