| Summary: | PDF generated from vertical text has wrong character orientation for Japanese (OSX only) | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Herouth Maoz <libreoffice> |
| Component: | Writer | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | medium | CC: | foss, iplaw67, philipz85, tabe |
| Version: | 4.1.5.3 release | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | Mac OS X (All) | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 83066 | ||
| Attachments: | Example Japanese text document and resulting PDF in zip file | ||
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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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.