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[Scott Cowles Jacobs <1769654@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am using LibreOffice-Writer 1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1 on Lubuntu Next 18.04, and found when opening a previously-created document, that the pages did not line up.
Searching for LO-W bugs that referenced line-spacing, eventually led me to the original reporter's bug, and then to the debian bug report that you list in comment #5:
(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=898116)
where they reported that the bug had been:
"Fixed in version fonts-liberation/1:1.07.4-6"
The version I had was 1:1.07.4-5, just as the original reporter.

So, I snagged the "cosmic" package* (not yet available for "bionic")
and tried it, and it definitely solves my problem.

*see: https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/all/fonts-liberation/download
and (probably) follow the advice at the top: add the deb line to your
repository list (selecting an appropriate URI mirror site for your area).

I suppose that it will be available for bionic, soon, but needed it
sooner...

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Title:
  Ubuntu 18.04 embedded fonts Liberation have corrupted metrics

Status in fonts-liberation package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in fonts-liberation2 package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in fonts-liberation package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in fonts-liberation2 package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Ubuntu/Xubuntu 18.04 package includes fonts "Liberation Sans" (etc
  "Liberation") with sligtly shrinked font metrics. This issue leads to
  all office documents typed in Liberation Sans fonts have corrupted
  formatting in Ubuntu 18.04 (but these documents correctly opened in
  other OS's, for example Ubuntu 17.10). Documents with corrupted
  formatting can not print properly: all paragraphs are shifted up,
  embedded tables in text - splitted on page breaks. Document
  circulation in system based on Ubuntu 18.04 operating systems
  temporarily paralized, because Liberation fonts are basic fonts for
  open-source document circulation.

  In attachment I have type a example office document with 2 pages and
  enumerated strings. On normal ordinary conditions this document have
  54 strings on first page and 54 string on second page. But if this
  document open in Ubuntu 18.04, it's found than 5 strings from second
  page moves to first page. Compare font versions embedded with Ubuntu
  packages we can see that versions are different (sudo apr search
  fonts-liberation* command):

  Ubuntu 17.10 - 1:1.07.4-2, 2.00.1-3
  Ubuntu 18.04 - 1:1.07.4-5, 2.00.1-5

  I have create a bug 117411 "Font metrics slightly changed after update
  OS to Ubuntu 18.04", see
  https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117411, but I
  think that this bug concerns a Ubuntu/Xubuntu 18.04 package.

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