Bug 132428 - [CALC] non-horizontal text (orientation) is not exported as text
Summary: [CALC] non-horizontal text (orientation) is not exported as text
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Printing and PDF export (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.4.3.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
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Reported: 2020-04-26 10:13 UTC by mattia.b89
Modified: 2020-08-28 19:26 UTC (History)
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2020-05-11 20:58 UTC, mattia.b89 		Details
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Description mattia.b89 2020-04-26 10:13:35 UTC 
Text with a different orientation (e.g. 45°) is not exported as text in PDFs (can't select it).

Steps to reproduce:
* open Calc
* type "hello1" in one cell
* type "hello2" in one cell, then change text orientation by setting 45 degrees in Format->Alignment->Text Orientation->Degrees
* export it as PDF
* open exported file and CTRL-a to select all text
* you can notice only "hello1" word is selected

I am on Arch Linux x86_64 and using latest LO

Version: 6.4.3.2
Build ID: 6.4.3-1
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.5; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: it-IT (en_GB.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-GB
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2020-05-11 09:48:16 UTC 
I do reproduce it in 

Version: 7.0.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: 86bc13248c1d9f63b10aac304bdf0361d1dcc47f
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.19; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

the question is, is rotated text selectable in PDF files? could you please provide a sample that works ?
Comment 2 mattia.b89 2020-05-11 20:57:43 UTC 
You are right, so I created an example file (attached below).
I tried with different PDF viewer and it looks like browser PDF viewers are able to select that text.

I think we can close this issue as NOTABUG
Comment 3 mattia.b89 2020-05-11 20:58:13 UTC 
Created attachment 160703 [details]
example
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2020-05-12 03:53:13 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Buovjaga 2020-08-28 19:26:34 UTC 
(In reply to mattia.b89 from comment #2)
> You are right, so I created an example file (attached below).
> I tried with different PDF viewer and it looks like browser PDF viewers are
> able to select that text.
> 
> I think we can close this issue as NOTABUG

Ok, let's do it