Created attachment 97417 [details] Example Japanese text document and resulting PDF in zip file When exporting a vertical-text document to PDF, the character orientation changes, so that it becomes a plain left-to-right document rotated by 90 degrees instead of a vertical text document. * Create new text document. * Paste in plain text copied from some source, say Japanese Wikipedia. * In Format->Page change the text direction to "right-to-left (vertical)". * Choose proper Asian font to ensure proper metrics, make sure the text flows properly from right to left (using the text direction buttons if necessary). * Export to PDF. The characters are all rotated by 90 degrees. An example document (content copied from the LibreOffice item in Wikipedia) and the resulting PDF are attached.
Tested the attached file in Linux Mint with LibO 3.3.0, 4.2.4, and 4.3 beta 2 and unfortunately couldnt reproduce. Also tested 4.2.4 on Windows 7 and still couldnt reproduce. Likely another mac only font issue. @Herouth: had this been showing correctly in previous version of LibreOffice?
I haven't tested it before, so just now I downloaded a copy of LibreOffice 3.3.4 and tested the same document, and the result is the same.
Reproduced on OS X 10.9.3 LO4.3beta2. The exported PDF indeed chances character orientation. NEW and adding "osx only" to title.
A workaround, maybe also a hint to the person attempting to solve this: I ran into the same problem, but could produce a .pdf with correctly oriented letters by using the pdf output option in the print dialog instead of Export to PDF.
(In reply to Tobias Schlüter from comment #4) > A workaround, maybe also a hint to the person attempting to solve this: > > I ran into the same problem, but could produce a .pdf with correctly > oriented letters by using the pdf output option in the print dialog instead > of Export to PDF. Printing to PDF (a) Causes the loss of cross-references and table-of-content links in the document. (b) Is good only for printing. The text is not contiguous, you can't select a sentence and copy it, for example. The selection simply doesn't follow the vertical lines, which it does in the PDF exported directly from LibreOffice.
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