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If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2018-08-30T12:25:49+00:00 Miikka-Markus Alhonen wrote: Description: Creating a PDF from a document written in the Arabic script deforms the textual content of the document, although it looks fine on the screen. For example, see the attached PDF created with Writer 5.4.6.2 on Ubuntu 17.10, where the example sentence "اشترى بلال خمسة آلاف كتاب وَأَنَا اشْتَرَيْتُهَا مِنْهُ" looks as it should, but when you view it with any PDF reader, such as evince, copying the text deforms most of the words. Some characters are clearly visible but cannot be selected or searched (such as ى at the end of the first word اشترى). If I search for the second word بلال, evince tells me there are no matches in the document. The same happens when converting the file with pdftotext, which produces the following output: اشتر للا مسة لفا كتاب وَأَنَا ْ ه اشت َ َريْتُهَا ِ من ْ ُ Here only two of the eight words are intact, the rest are garbled in one way or another. If the text is in Latin script, both evince and pdftotext behave as expected, meaning that the textual content is transferred correctly from Writer to the PDF. On LO 6.0.3.2 on Ubuntu 18.04, the textual content is preserved a little better but it is still quite garbled. This is the output from pdftotext: ه اشترى للا خمسة آفا كتاب وَأنَا اشْ ت َ َريْتُهَا ِ من ْ ُ Here four out of the eight words are intact, and for example the last word of the sentence is divided so that the last full character is found on the first line and the rest on the third line. Some diacritics are found where they are supposed to be, some others not. MS Word 2007 handles this case better, although it's not perfect either. This is the output from pdftotext: اشترى بالل خمسة آالف كتاب وأنا اشتريتها منه Here all diacritics are dropped and all sequences of ل (U+0644) + ا (U+0627) are reversed turning لا into ال. Otherwise the sentence is intact. This bug was first reported on Launchpad for LO 5.4.6.2 on Ubuntu 17.10 at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1772439 . After my initial report, I have upgraded to LO 6.0.3.2 where the problem persists, although the actual output is different. Another user on Launchpad confirmed the bug on LO 6.0.3.2, as well. Steps to Reproduce: 1. In a new Writer document, type some text in Arabic. My example sentence was: اشترى بلال خمسة آلاف كتاب وَأَنَا اشْتَرَيْتُهَا مِنْهُ 2. Create a PDF. 3. Open the created PDF with a PDF reader (such as evince) and type one of the words in the Search dialog, e.g. بلال. Alternatively select the word in the PDF reader and copy-paste it somewhere else. You can also convert the PDF to text using a utility like pdftotext. Actual Results: The PDF reader reports there are no matches for some of the words in the document, although they are all clearly visible. Selecting and copy-pasting the word garbles it. Pdftotext's output is garbled. Expected Results: All the words that are visible should also be searchable in a PDF reader, copy-pasting should preserve the text, and the output of pdftotext should match the original document. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1772439/comments/6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2018-08-30T12:26:47+00:00 Miikka-Markus Alhonen wrote: Created attachment 144554 PDF created with LO 5.4.6.2 where textual content is garbled Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1772439/comments/7 ** Changed in: df-libreoffice Status: Unknown => New ** Changed in: df-libreoffice Importance: Unknown => Medium -- 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/1772439 Title: Arabic text gets deformed when creating a PDF in LibreOffice Writer Status in LibreOffice: New Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Creating a PDF from a document written in the Arabic script deforms the textual content of the document, although it looks fine on the screen. For example, see the attached PDF created with Writer, where the example sentence "اشترى بلال خمسة آلاف كتاب وَأَنَا اشْتَرَيْتُهَا مِنْهُ" looks as it should, but when you view it with any PDF reader, such as evince, copying the text deforms most of the words. Some characters are clearly visible but cannot be selected or searched (such as ى at the end of the first word اشترى). If I search for the second word بلال, evince tells me there are no matches in the document. The same happens when converting the file with pdftotext, which produces the following output: اشتر للا مسة لفا كتاب وَأَنَا ْ ه اشت َ َريْتُهَا ِ من ْ ُ Here only two of the seven words are intact, the rest are garbled in one way or another. If the text is in Latin script, both evince and pdftotext behave as expected, meaning that the textual content is transferred correctly from Writer to the PDF. 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: Mon May 21 15:18:41 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-13 (462 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 (196 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1772439/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
