[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 32522] New: Some letters are in wrong order in the output of pdftotext

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32522

           Summary: Some letters are in wrong order in the output of
                    pdftotext
           Product: poppler
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: poppler-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: jarkas at gmail.com


I have a pdf file created in Adobe InDesign CS3 (5.0.4) with an embedded Arabic
font called AXtManal, this font was created to work around the limitation of
publishing softwares of creating Arabic documents.

pdftotext v0.15.3 (and older versions) renders some letters in wrong order, for
eample: the word "abcd" appears "acbd", and this error repeated with many
groups of letters, like "l" and "a", "m" and "j", "r" and "y" ..etc

Evince displayed the file correctly with the correct order and the correct
layout. the problem is only in the extracting.

Any idea how to fix that?


you can find the pdf sample here:
https://sites.google.com/site/jarkas/Home/049.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
and the text output:
https://sites.google.com/site/jarkas/Home/049_0.15.3.txt?attredirects=0&d=1

Best Regards

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