When I type “helvetica” in the font name without having the Helvetica font installed, what is the default font used to replace it?

[surian]

Hello! When I write “helvetica” in the font name of libreoffice writer and press enter, without having the Helvetica font installed, it automatically uses an helvetica substitute without saying the name of the font. In the font name it still shows helvetica, the same way I wrote it, but that’s not the font being used, since it’s not installed. I need to know the name of the font that is being used instead. Could you help me? Thanks!

PS: when I select a text written in that font and click on Format > Character > Font it show me the uploaded image saying “this font has not been installed. The closest available font will be used”

[Zizi64]

Displays Arial when Helvetica is selected

I do have Helvetica installed, and I do see it in the font selection menu, but what is displayed on screen (and printed) is Arial. This seems to only happen in LibreOffice, as if I open the same document in Word, it displays and prints properly as Helvetica.

[mikekaganski]

How to get information about a substituted font?

@ajlittoz: you might want to try XFontMappingUse interface, which you might obtain by creating an instance of com.sun.star.awt.Toolkit service. It appeared in v.7.3. It provides you a “log” of the mapping events.

[surian]

Thanks @mikekaganski for the XFontMappingUse Interface Reference

For future readers, I discovered (by trial and error) that in my system (linux mint 20.4 | LO 7.3.7.2) when I write “helvetica” it uses Nimbus Sans to replace it.

PS: going to * (menu):Tools→Options...→LibreOffice→Fonts or to * (menu):File→Properties→Fonts didn’t show the font`s used.

[Zizi64]

@surian

:Tools→Options...→LibreOffice→Fonts

…The “Replacement table” is a feature for the enforced substitution of the fonts. It will not show the substituted fonts automatically. You must fill the table with the desired font names.