Hiding Fonts

Hi, Artur

Can you please clarify what you mean when you say fonts are hidden? Do you mean that, in the Fonts control panel, the Show/hide property is set to Hide?

Fonts in the MS control panel are set to hide (which simply means graying out) still show up (without graying) in LibreOffice Writer. I'm trying to find a way to "hide" fonts in Windows that hides them in LibreOffice as well. MS hidden fonts still show as other fonts in LibreOffice. They aren't even grayed out. I'd prefer that they simply don't show either in Windows or in LibreOffice. I don't know why this appears to be a problem for Microsoft, but it does appear to have been a problem for quite some time now. There isn't the slightest possibility that my machine will at any time in the future come into the hands of individuals who wish to use these non-Western fonts. What possible reason could there be for Microsoft to refuse to permit the true hiding of these fonts? If they're hidden, they can be re-activated. Even if they're deleted a future user wishing to utilize non-Western fonts can easily add them. Why is this a problem?

Hi, Artur

The option in the Fonts control panel to "hide" fonts was added in Windows 7 and has effect in certain "common controls" built into Windows that applications can use. You can see this effect, for example, in Notepad or in Wordpad. However, many applications don't use those common controls, but instead create their own font-selection controls or dialogs. This is the case, for instance, with LibreOffice. When this was added in Windows 7, it was anticipated that the functionality could be extended so that other applications such as LibreOffice could also take advantage of it. But that never got prioritized: I don't think many customers using Windows 7 ever asked for it. If this kind of functionality is something you'd like to see in Windows 10, then you should submit feedback in the Feedback Hub app to request this.