The other development, is that #LibreOffice now supports automatically enabling optical size axis (opsz).

More in: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153368#c9

This also sets up some infrastructure for supporting arbitrary font variation settings (so fare LibreOffice only supported named instances), which I would like to tackle next.

Support for named instances is a bit of a mess at moment as well because LibreOffice never properly supported font styles outside weight/slop, but I have some ideas to sort this out at some point.

The other development, is that #LibreOffice now supports automatically enabling optical size axis (opsz).

More in: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153368#c9

This also sets up some infrastructure for supporting arbitrary font variation settings (so fare LibreOffice only supported named instances), which I would like to tackle next.

Support for named instances is a bit of a mess at moment as well because LibreOffice never properly supported font styles outside weight/slop, but I have some ideas to sort this out at some point.

I started working on #LibreOffice again, two new developments:

It now instances variable fonts when embedding in PDF instead of drawing the outlines as PDF vectors (using PDF Type 3 fonts), which is more efficient and allows the text to be rendered as fonts not graphics.

This uses #HarfBuzz subsetter under the hood, so while at it, I replaced most of LibreOffice’s ancient (CVE-happy) low-level font subsetting code, with HarfBuzz subsetter.

CFF2 fonts are still drawn as graphics, but next of version of HarfBuzz will support downgrading CFF2 to CFF after instancing, and I plan to use that when it is available.

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