This particular problem seems to have been resolved on LO 7.3.0.3 on Windows 10. Rotating these and other Arabic-script characters does not work as expected (sometimes the text won't rotate at all or if it does, the letters are in reversed order) but these seem to be separate issues.
Version: 7.3.0.3 (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 0f246aa12d0eee4a0f7adcefbf7c878fc2238db3 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR); UI: fr-FR Calc: CL -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1774244 Title: [upstream] Rotated Arabic text is displaced in PDF when substitute glyphs are used Status in LibreOffice: Confirmed Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Confirmed 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-scheherazade, available through packages.sil.org). After rotating the letters by 90 degrees, everything looked fine on the screen but when I created a PDF, everything was displaced about one inch upwards and one inch to the left. See the attached screenshot, where everything looks fine, and the PDF where all the letters are displaced. 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: 1:5.4.6-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 Candidate: 1:5.4.6-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 Version table: *** 1:5.4.6-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 500 500 http://mr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:5.4.5-0ubuntu0.17.10.5 500 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-security/main amd64 Packages 1:5.4.1-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://mr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: libreoffice-writer 1:5.4.6-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-41.46-generic 4.13.16 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-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-11-05 (205 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1774244/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
