Public bug reported:
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)
** Affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug artful wayland-session
** Attachment added: "Example displaced Arabic.pdf"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1774244/+attachment/5146579/+files/Example%20displaced%20Arabic.pdf
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1774244
Title:
Rotated Arabic text is displaced in PDF when substitute glyphs are
used
Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
New
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)
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