Create a vertical text area. Type something in it. It will be displayed from top to bottom (OK). In the text area properties, make a rotation of 180 degrees. Text will now be displayed the other way, from bottom to top (OK). Export the document as PDF and open it. The text will begin at the bottom (OK), but will not be written to top. Instead, it will be written to bottom of the page mirrored on the vertical axis.
Created attachment 42209 [details] Orginal odt file vertical text rotated with various angles
Created attachment 42210 [details] exported pdf file PDF resulting file when exporting
I attached a demo file and the result in PDF. As you can see: - 0 and 90 degrees behave correctly. - 45, 135, 225 and 315 degrees are not correctly expended. - from 135 to 180 degrees, text is going in the wrong direction and is mirrored on the writing axis instead of being mirrored on the edge of the first character (which would fix both the direction and the mirror problem) - 270 is simply unreadable, all characters are stacked one over the other at the first character position.
Reproduced on Ubuntu 10.04 x86.
Could someone point me where I should look in LibreOffice code for the PDF export? I'd like to have a look at it and maybe fix it.
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This bug is still there in latest version and can be reproduced with the attached files.
LOdev 3.5.0beta2 4ca392c-760cc4d-f39cf3d-1b2857e-60db978 Ubuntu 10.04.3 x86 Linux 2.6.32-37-generic Russian UI Still reproduced.
Reproduced on Windows 7, version 3.6.2.2. This bug is not going away.
I think this is a rather important bug, so setting importance to "high". Export to PDF is a very common way to preserve contents of a document, so it is not acceptable to lose information IMHO.
Has Nothing to do With Writer! It's a General problem with rotated Draw Textboxes, I also see that with DRAW. Affected are true type fonts and also Courier New Was ok in Printout with Laser Printer Several AOOo Bugs might be related: I. 87686 - Problem with accent in vertical text when exporting to PDF I. 100522 - 180° rotated text inText Field crippled in PDF export I. 102352 - PDF export of vertical rotated text broken I. 119010 - text rotated 90 deg is inverted in PDF when in landscape layout May be additional ones The sample documents might show several different bugs, we will have to decide whether they should be split away. and leave this one for the kerning problem shown in "Here is a vertical text! : 45 degrees" - "Here is a vertical text! : 315 degrees" Such an old bug seems to be not really critical, and IMHO also not MAB. But now it has been rated ... More research soon!
It might be an old bug. It was critical at the time I was producing my essay for my master degree. However, even if I tried to attract some people to dig with me about this bug, I never succeeded. I'm not using LibreOffice as often as I used to do, but I still have to rely on other solutions when I need to produce PDF documents from time to time that have rotated text.
Still ok with OOo 2.0.3, but visible in OOo 3.1.1, so inherited from OOo Indeed only boxes "Vertical Text" affected
Who says you can't teach old bugs new fixes?
Tried with LO 3.6.2.2 in Ubuntu Quantal 12.10. Exporting to PDF, the bug is reproducible. Printing directly to the virtual cups-pdf printer provided by: http://www.cups-pdf.de/ The bug is reproducible with exactly the same symptoms. Is this a problem in Ghostscript or a general problem when printing rotated boxes? Can anyone test with actual printers through CUPS?
Created attachment 78542 [details] PDFs from LibreOffice export and eDoc PDF printer, rotated text looks fine Using LibreOffice 4.1.0.0.alpha0+ the sample document prints without problems on my PDF printer (eDoc PDF printer pro) as well as the build in PDF exporter.
Tested with 4.0.2 and CUPS pdf printer: same problem as before. I'll try under Windows with different PDF printers.
Tested under Windows with LO 4.0.2. Exporting directly from LO as PDF gives the same buggy result as before. Exporting as XPS gives a good result. Printing to a PDF printer (PDF Creator) gives a good result. Results are coming.
Created attachment 78760 [details] LO PDF Export buggy as firstly reported
Created attachment 78761 [details] printed XPS result good
Created attachment 78762 [details] Printed PDF with PDF Creator good
Created attachment 78763 [details] BullZip virtual PDF printer via Ghostscript Another test with a different solution: Bullzip PDF printer based on Ghostscript. This result is not as good as some other options, but not as buggy as LO PDF Export.
Marking as NEW - many commenters confirmed, also in latest stable version.
I can reproduce this with an older (from 2013-03-09) master build, but not with latest master, I'll track down which commit fixed this, hopefully something that's possible to backport.
Zhe Wang committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-0": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=95ad41e7da7423639157c8fe7a5fc29066760689&h=libreoffice-4-0 fdo#33281, i#120627 [From Symphony]the text on the Y axis is reversed when export ppt file to PDF format. It will be available in LibreOffice 4.0.4. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Zhe Wang committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-6": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=07d4398a4a3e25ade493aca0e6b3e480c1a14014&h=libreoffice-3-6 fdo#33281, i#120627 [From Symphony]the text on the Y axis is reversed when export ppt file to PDF format. It will be available in LibreOffice 3.6.7. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Fixed in libreoffice-4-0 and libreoffice-3-6, marking as resolved.