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  1. Bug #105906
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Comment 5 for bug 105906

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote : Re: [Bug 105906] Re: [Hardy] [patch] Default font "Times" does not exist

Milan schrieb:
> Attached a debdiff applying the modifications proposed in the patches.
>
> This only affects Ubuntu-specific changes: I found out this bug was introduced in
> openoffice.org (2.2.0-0ubuntu1) feisty
> "* Use Times/Helvetica as the default font for writer documents (calc and
> impress still pick up the DejaVu screen font)."
> (-- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:58:28 +0200):
>
> Matthias Klose: do you remember what was the rationale for this change?
> It seems strange to use by default fonts we know won't be present. Much
> thanks!

Hard-coding a concrete font seems to be wrong; the Times alias can be provided
by several fonts. I still think the attached patch is wrong.