[upstream] Rotated Arabic text is displaced in PDF when substitute glyphs are used
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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LibreOffice |
Confirmed
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Medium
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libreoffice (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In this example, I created a document with a few Arabic-script characters (U+08A2, U+08A3 & U+08A4), which were quite recently added to Unicode for various Arabic-script African languages such as Fulfulde. The font I had used in the rest of the document was DejaVu Sans, so I used that font setting even for these characters. In reality, these glyphs are not found in DejaVu Sans but had to be substituted from another font, in my case Scheherazade (from fonts-sil-
If I change the font setting for this text to Scheherazade, everything looks fine even in a generated PDF. So apparently LibreOffice gets confused by the different font metrics of the two fonts, the one selected by the user and the one used as the real source for the glyphs.
Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10
libreoffice-writer:
Installed: 1:5.4.6-
Candidate: 1:5.4.6-
Version table:
*** 1:5.4.6-
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
1:
500 http://
1:
500 http://
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: libreoffice-writer 1:5.4.6-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-41-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed May 30 17:36:37 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-13 (471 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-11-05 (205 days ago)
Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in df-libreoffice: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
summary: |
- Rotated Arabic text is displaced in PDF when substitute glyphs are used + [upstream] Rotated Arabic text is displaced in PDF when substitute + glyphs are used |
Here's a screenshot where everything looks fine, unlike the PDF.