<div dir="rtl"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><font size="1">Hi,</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><font size="1"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><font size="1">These problems are still there in today builds of latest LibreOffice pre-release (4.4.0~rc2). I'm using Ubuntu Linux with official prerelease PPA.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><font size="1"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><font size="1">The most problematic problem is the justification bug, reported here:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" dir="ltr"><font size="1"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35320" target="_blank">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35320</a></font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1">The attached ODT file is a simple minimal working sample to show visible justification bug in Libreoffice.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1">Is there a chance than someone can help fixing this issue? Please note that this bug existed in OpenOffice and it was fixed, and now OpenOffice works just fine with this sample, but Libreoffice creates bad results.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">2013-10-29 15:48 GMT+03:30 Hossein Noorikhah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hossein.ir@gmail.com" target="_blank">hossein.ir@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;border-right-width:1px;border-right-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-right-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"><div dir="rtl"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Hi,</font></div>
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<font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Starting with version LibreOffice 3.6, we had some issues with Arabic text rendering in LibreOffice. These issues got worse starting LO 4.0. </font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I hoped that patches which some developers provided [1], may fix the bugs. But right now I'm using LO v4.1.2.3 and nearly most of the problems that have been fixed in OpenOffice versions prior to 3.0 are now visible again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">For example these are serious and were all fixed prior to OpenOffice 3.0:</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">1. Text rendering cuts and continues out of the border. (attached picture 1)</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">2. Kashida placement in wrong position, in the free space between words (attached picture 2)</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">3. Losing paragraph direction, making RTL paragraph LTR. (attached picture 2)</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px">
<span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">These not happen for every font, but using some popular fonts, these issues are visible, for example using "Droid Arabic Naskh".</span><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Some users reported that they were forced to downgrade LibreOffice to avoid these issuses. </span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We were working on localization before these problems, but right now it is very important to have a correct rendering engine before continuing UI translation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Considering the fact that many languages like Persian and Urdu </span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">use Arabic script,</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> I think fixing bugs related to Arabic text rendering is important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Thanks</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Hossein</span></div>
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<font face="tahoma, sans-serif">[1] <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=4c4b9db8bbaed7acd064a4015fabe784c4fbca21" target="_blank">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=4c4b9db8bbaed7acd064a4015fabe784c4fbca21</a></font></div>
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