When composing new document using writer in Ubuntu, using Arabic fonts, everything seems fine and the file is saved. However, once the file is closed and re opened again, the formatting of the document will be different as follows: 1- The direction of the document is changed from Right to Left to become from Left to Right 2- All text align to left instead of right 3- image placed in the header (logo) will disappear, and some time will remain but is aligned to left 4- Any added fields will not be there anymore 5- the document size is set back to default (letter) The Following describes my system: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Memory 5.8 GiB Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz × 8 Graphics: GeForce GT 540M/PCIe/SSE2 OS type: 64 bit
worth mentioning that the files are saved as DOCX under windows partition and not Linux, and noting that this happens exactly the same even when the file is saved as .odt (but also still under windows partition)
Where is the sample?
Created attachment 69884 [details] 1 st trail to design a form This form shows how the image on the header is placed to the left while originally it was on the right. Also shows the change in document size. It happened many times that when opening it it will be all left aligned while it should be right aligned
Created attachment 69885 [details] Same doc saved as odt This is the same document saved in other format, and this is how it looks when opening.
Created attachment 69886 [details] This is the same form but designed under windows This is the same form but designed under Ms word in windows. This how it looks when I open it under Linux.
Created attachment 69887 [details] This is the same form in pdf made under windows after saving it This is the same original form designed under windows and saved there as pdf so I can use it when under Ubuntu. That was the only solution to work under Linux...go to windows, and do what you want and save it as pdf then go back to linux to use it. I think this not practical for anyone. So far experience with writer is very bad, even still I did not report problems when using Arabic fonts. The idea is that when under the processing everything may look good but once the file is closed and reopened then the problems will come up.
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