Description: This is my first time I use 5.3.3 after upgrading from 4.4. I think this a regression from old version. Displaying Arabic text in screen is OK but when exporting to pdf, kashidas are inserted randomly. see the screen shot. I can reproduce this bugs with all my fonts. I am using ubuntu 16.04. For me, with this bug is useless!. Actual Results: kashidas are inserted randomly in pdf. Expected Results: kashidas are inserted when only I insert them by keyboard. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0
Created attachment 134095 [details] wrong pdf export
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well, after more investigation I figure out that this problem with old document that created by libreoffice version 5.2 or less. I attached a sample file and its pdf from my machine.
Created attachment 134122 [details] sample doc
Created attachment 134123 [details] wrong pdf export
Created attachment 134129 [details] LibreOffice 6.0 alpha0+ Hi Fahad, Since I can't read Arabic, could you please mark where the problem is? This is how the PDF looks exporting it to PDF with Version: 6.0.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 08f6f9dded1b142b858c455da03319abac691655 CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Linux 4.8; UI Render: default; VCL: gtk2; Locale: ca-ES (ca_ES.UTF-8); Calc: group
Created attachment 134130 [details] the error
sure, please see the marks with red in "the error" screen shot.
Created attachment 134240 [details] Errors in red You forgot the errors, so I made a new screenshot.
Isn’t this a duplicate of bug 113428?
(In reply to Khaled Hosny from comment #10) > Isn’t this a duplicate of bug 113428? I guess not, as the problem remains. Arch Linux 64-bit Version: 6.1.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 19f8a979ff86be39a3938b3d7b25c1431191e708 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.14; UI render: default; VCL: kde4; Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded Built on January 25th 2018
*** Bug 117907 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Not fixed yet
*** Bug 132121 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 181513 [details] LibreOffice 7.5 dev master The situation is now better with the latest patch from Khaled, but the problem is not yet completely fixed. vcl: Better kashida insertion position validation author: Khaled Hosny <khaled@aliftype.com> Sat Jul 30 19:52:28 2022 +0200 9a6b673699fa925f5d87e47d4b359f37ad27260e See the attachment for the output from the same file from the latest LO 7.5 dev master.
https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/3901e029bd39575f700e69a73818565d62226a23
I can see the improvement in PDF exports between 7.4.3.2 and: Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: c9e961e6803a70587bd4686d05abdd4ac11de434 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Thanks Khaled!
Created attachment 184022 [details] screenshot of difference between 7.4 and 7.5 in PDF export