Description: After adding a font to my system, it was not immediately available in Writer. So I quit and restarted Writer. The font was still missing from the font drop-down list. I launched a couple of other applications on my system and confirmed that the font was available. After hunting around for a preference or explanation in Writer, I opened my document in Pages (which showed the newly added font) and completed it over the next 45 minutes or so. After quitting Pages and returning to Writer, I found that the font had mysteriously become available. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open a document in Writer that calls for a font not on your system. In my case, it was Century Gothic (attached to this report). 2.Install the attached font by selecting its files in Finder, selecting Open, and installing from the Mac font preview. 3.Look for Century Gothic in the font drop-down in the Writer toolbar. Close Writer, re-open the document, and look again. Actual Results: The font was not shown in the font list, even after restarting Writer. Almost an hour later, I had completed my document in another application; finding that I had left Writer open, I checked for the font in it again and found that it was now available. Expected Results: The font is available in the font drop-down after restarting the app, if not immediately after adding it. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 7.3.1.3 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: a69ca51ded25f3eefd52d7bf9a5fad8c90b87951 CPU threads: 10; OS: Mac OS X 12.3.1; UI render: default; VCL: osx Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
Created attachment 180289 [details] The font that demonstrated the bug on my system
Sounds like font cache refresh issue. Perhaps, the LO font cache refresh is only done lazily to improve performance ? Theoretically, it was my understanding that it was supposed to refresh on application shutdown and restart though. Not an expert here, so would need a dev to comment.
Yep, I wouldn't have filed this if restarting the app had caused the font to show up, since this is pretty common among applications I've used. The time delay is interesting. I wonder what was going on in the interim.
Downloaded Roboto from google fonts and that showed up after a restart Pages picked it up immediately without a restart Version: 7.5.1.2 (AARCH64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: fcbaee479e84c6cd81291587d2ee68cba099e129 CPU threads: 10; OS: Mac OS X 13.2.1; UI render: default; VCL: osx Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded