PDF export is broken

Laszlo Karoly laszlokaroly at hung.u-szeged.hu
Fri Sep 1 22:03:06 UTC 2006


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NAKATA Maho wrote:
> In Message-ID: <44F89849.8030009 at hung.u-szeged.hu> 
> Laszlo Karoly <laszlokaroly at hung.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
> 
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>> Matt Reimer wrote:
>>> On 9/1/06, Laszlo Karoly <laszlokaroly at hung.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
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>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I think that the FreeBSD version of OO.org 2.0 has a strange bug in PDF
>>>> export. Generally speaking it works fine. However it cannot handle the
>>>> diacritic marks in the correct way, i.e. marks positioned by OpenType
>>>> GPOS script are not in the correct position. On the screen these marks
>>>> appear as they should be, but in the generated PDF both the base glyph
>>>> and the mark are shifted up or down. The Windows version does the job
>>>> fine.
>>>> You can see the problem in the following files:
>>>> ftp://www.alt.u-szeged.hu/pub/OO.org/Test.odt
>>>> ftp://www.alt.u-szeged.hu/pub/OO.org/Test_FreeBSD.pdf
>>>> ftp://www.alt.u-szeged.hu/pub/OO.org/Test_Windows.pdf
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes, Laci
>>>>
>>>> - --
>>>> László Károly                   <laszlokaroly at hung.u-szeged.hu>
>>>> Department of Altaic Studies                    Egyetem str. 2.
>>>> University of Szeged                     H-6722 Szeged, Hungary
>>> This is most likely not a FreeBSD-specific problem, but probably
>>> occurs on all platforms that use ICU for rendering. Please enter a bug
>>> in OpenOffice.org's issue tracker.
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>> Thanks. Your are right. I did a test on Linux: broken.
>> I send a PR.
> 
> Right. I was bit confused that you used the term PR.
> I assume you filed an issue, and please let us know the issue number.
> (if you actually filed a PR, it won't be fixed)
> 
> thanks,
> -- NAKATA, Maho (maho at FreeBSD.org)
>  
> 
I have filed this PDF-export issue. Please find the details here:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=69189

Sorry for using fallacious words. Generally speaking, in such cases 'to
file an issue' and 'to send a problem report' are the same in my mind.
I should be more correct...

Best, Laci

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László Károly                   <laszlokaroly at hung.u-szeged.hu>
Department of Altaic Studies                    Egyetem str. 2.
University of Szeged                     H-6722 Szeged, Hungary


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