Issue 125041 - I have a perfectly legit font (Regular, italic, bold, and bold italic installed) and OO doesn't recognize the Regular one.
Summary: I have a perfectly legit font (Regular, italic, bold, and bold italic install...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: 4.1.0
Hardware: Mac OS X 10.9
: P3 Normal (vote)
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Reported: 2014-06-04 12:01 UTC by jeltoipodtouch555
Modified: 2018-03-16 05:51 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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2016-09-30 02:41 UTC, rvhinze 		no flags Details
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Description jeltoipodtouch555 2014-06-04 12:01:18 UTC 
Hello there,

Everything worked fine on OO 4.0, but with updating to 4.1.0, something strange happened. In screenshot 1, you can see that I have Garamond-MT installed. To be sure: I validated the font, it's fine, and these same files worked perfectly in 00 4.0, so the problem couldn't possible be the font files. Also, in TextEdit, the font behaves completely normal.

But, if I go to OO 4.1.0, I get this (see screenshot n. 2 and 3). It seems like OO 4.1.0 selects the Italic as primary and recognizes it as Regular. (I get the exact same italic letters when I make the font italic. Bold and Bold-italic, on the other hand, work perfectly.)

If I go to font book, and I disable the "italic" and the "bold" components of this font, this happens (screenshot 4). So now, it all of a sudden, it recognizes the regular component.

(Final note: this only happens with Garamond-MT. I have a large amount of other fonts, and they work perfectly.) I really don't know what the problem could be.)

Greetings

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1: http://s29.postimg.org/lcuu8nu8n/image.png
2: http://s29.postimg.org/5dc6p3y6v/image.png
3: http://s29.postimg.org/bprbyy193/image.png
4: http://s29.postimg.org/606i0w5p3/image.png
Comment 1 rvhinze 2016-09-30 02:41:46 UTC 
Created attachment 85706 [details]
Regular style Garamond MT
Comment 2 rvhinze 2016-09-30 02:46:10 UTC 
Comment on attachment 85706 [details]
Regular style Garamond MT

I tried to replicate this issue on Windows 10 with OpenOffice 4.1.2 but was unable to.

The steps I took:
1. Check if Garamond MT was a default font - it was not.
2. Download Garamond MT and add it to my default fonts.
3. Select the font in Writer and write a sentence - this was successful in regular, bold, and italic styles.

Perhaps the previous user experienced a version-specific issue.
Comment 3 dickwyn 2018-03-16 05:51:23 UTC 
Hi, 

I tried replicating this issue on a Late 2016 MacBook Pro running macOS High Sierra (v10.13) with Open Office 4.1.5 but I unable to come across the problem that you faced and I didn't have to disable the other font styles for the Garamond MT Regular to display as expected. 

How I replicated the issue
1. Installed a fresh copy of Open Office.
2. Installed Garamond MT in Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic.
3. Typed out lorem ipsum using the four font styles (bold, italic, bold-italic, regular).

Some additional nuggets of info about my setup is that I only have the default system fonts installed on my Mac. I would conclude that this issue might have already been fixed in version 4.1.5