Support embedded fonts

[VanCoding]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
feature

What is the current behavior?
When editing a document with an embedded font on a document server that has not installed this font, the font gets not displayed correctly.

What is the expected behavior?
When editing a document with an embedded font on a document server that has not installed this font, the font should still get displayed correclty (since it's embedded in the document).

I think this is an important feature, since you never know what kind of documents get uploaded to your server. If they contain unknown fonts, you're not able to edit the documents properly. Supporting embedded fonts lets you work around this problem.

[agolybev]

Hi Patrik, thank you for reporting. This feature is implemented in the pdf viewer only. We'll add embedded fonts support in future releases.

[Tachi107]

Hi, have you made any progress on this feature? It may not look super cool, but it certainly is useful. It often happened that when sending a document to a friend it looked completely broken because he didn't have the fonts used in the document installed on his system.
I would be happy to help with some code, but I don't really know where to start

[lePereT]

Likewise, this is probably the feature most preventing us making the full jump to OO. Making use of TTFs embedded in the document would be a godsend

[peacepenguin]

Embedded font support is an extremely important feature. In 2017 it was stated that it would be added in a future release. Please consider adding it in 2021.

[jaredweinfurtner]

Sharing a presentation with code snippets using a developer-friendly font is impossible without the ability to enable embedded fonts. Please consider adding this in the near future.

[ghost]

Absolutely a required feature.

[Brich40]

Hello,

Can you please tell us if embedded font is supported from now on ?
If yes, from which OnlyOffice version exactly ?

Thanks.

[ShockwaveNN]

Hi, I think we do not handled this issue properly in 2017, but this feature is still not implemented

Could you share some files with embed font so we make sure that we are talking about the same feature, because this feature request definitely will not cover file with any font without embed font, since we cannot include any fonts in documentserver installation for legal reasons

[ghost]

Hi, I think we do not handled this issue properly in 2017, but this feature is still not implemented

Could you share some files with embed font so we make sure that we are talking about the same feature, because this feature request definitely will not cover file with any font without embed font, since we cannot include any fonts in documentserver installation for legal reasons

You can absolutely display any file embedded font without any legal issues. The issue arises only when you ship your software with the fonts, which here you clearly do not. What we're walking about are .docx or any other office files that have a feature to embed the fonts that were used within the document. Those you need to display in the editor.

[ShockwaveNN]

So please a share an example file, so we 100% on same page

[ghost]

I've saved this file with the option to embed fonts and the option to only embed the characters used in the document as these are likely two options people will use.

embedded-font.docx

[Brich40]

In fact, I am using 3 of 9 barcode font that generates a barcode which displays without problem in OnlyOffice but after generating the PDF, the barcode does not display.

The issue is caused by pdf viewers as they do not support the new font. So the solution is to generate the pdf with an embedded font, but from what I understand this feature is not supported yet by OnlyOffice.

[ghost]

I didn't even see my embedded fonts in the pptx file I was using.

[ShockwaveNN]

@svtcpxdev Thanks for the file, I've created issue 58491 in our private issue tracker

If I remember correctly we already discussed this feature several times with our team, but never got time to implement that, since it's not an easy task, so I cannot guarantee any ETA of this