problems with arabic fonts with openoffice 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 on FreeBSD

[georg.wagner at ubs.com]

Hi Matthew,

The latest version (1.1.3) for FBSD 4.10 does not have this problem anymore.
On the older 1.1.3-Version for 5.3 I found a work-araound by setting
export SAL_AUTOHINTING_PRIORITY=0 in soffice

This fixed the glyph positioning-problem for arabic fonts.

Thanks

Georg
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-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Reimer [mailto:mreimer at vpop.net]
Sent: Donnerstag, 16. September 2004 18:53
To: openoffice at freebsd.org
Cc: Wagner, Georg
Subject: Re: problems with arabic fonts with openoffice 1.1.2 and 1.1.3
on FreeBSD


Georg Wagner wrote:

> I have tested OOo 1.1.2 and OOo 1.1.3 on FreeBSD 5.2.1 (XFree86 and
> Xorg) and 4.10/XFree86 .
> 
> On both platforms there is a problem with arabic fonts. They are not
> rendered correctly. All letters of  arabic texts are more or less
> written on a heap (above each other).
> 
> I suppose that these error is platform dependant since I did not hear
> about any problems with linux recently. But I know that Mandrake Linux
> has had this problem too. On this platform it was related to the version
> of libfreetype.
> 
> Is this error already known or even beeing actively investigated? Since
> this error seems to be platform related to whom should I send an error
> report?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Georg Wagner

Does this describe your problem:

 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=28567

Matt