Bug 94758 - LibreOffice does not render Urdu font (Nafees Nastaleeq) properly
Summary: LibreOffice does not render Urdu font (Nafees Nastaleeq) properly
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.4.5.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Reported: 2015-10-04 17:30 UTC by MalangBadshah
Modified: 2017-05-02 11:34 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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image showning overlapping alphabets in LibreOffice (91.98 KB, image/png)
2015-10-04 17:30 UTC, MalangBadshah
Details
font_name_size_garbled_image (51.46 KB, image/png)
2016-09-12 08:58 UTC, MalangBadshah
Details

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Description MalangBadshah 2015-10-04 17:30:16 UTC
Created attachment 119275 [details]
image showning overlapping alphabets in LibreOffice

LibreOffice does not render Nafees Nastaleeq Urdu fonts properly. Attached image contains the Urdu language alphabets in Nafees Nastaleeq font. These alphabets are overlapping each other. Honestly, I am not sure if this is the problem with the font or the LibreOffice rendering. If I am mistaken, please let me know and I will contact the font developers.

Thanks,
Ahsan
Comment 1 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2015-10-05 16:55:48 UTC
If you upgrade to LibreOffice 5.0.2, are you still able to reproduce the problem?
Comment 2 MalangBadshah 2015-10-05 18:35:47 UTC
I am using Fedora 22 and LibreOffice (LO) 5 has not been pushed to updates repositories yet. In Fedora, I will check it with 5 as soon as 5 lands in repos.

I briefly tried checking it with LO 5 in a Debian 8.2 Virtual Machine. As compared to Fedora which has the following collection of Nafees Urdu fonts
nafees-pakistani-web-naskh-fonts
nafees-riqa-fonts
nafees-web-naskh-fonts
nafees-nastaleeq-fonts
nafees-tehreer-naskh-fonts
nafees-pakistani-naskh-fonts
nafees-naskh-fonts,
the Urdu font choice in Debian is limited to Nafees Web Naskh only and apparently the problem does not occur. However, I think, it needs a bit more testing with other Nafees font variants. I will try manually installing fonts in Debian at the weekend and let you know the results. In the meanwhile, if LO lands to Fedora updates repository, I will recheck and share the results. A screenshot of Nafees Web Naskh in Debian 8.2 is available below.

http://postimg.org/image/3ndjanzxr/full/

Please let me know if you need more information.
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2015-10-08 09:07:08 UTC
You can also use this method to test right away: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/Linux
Comment 4 MalangBadshah 2015-10-10 08:40:30 UTC
I checked with LibreOffice 5 in Fedora 23 Beta Virtual machine and here are the results.

http://postimg.org/image/5g86a3z1r/full/


It appears that the problem is with one font (Nafees Nastaleeq). I am not sure if the problematic font is bitmap or scalable. I have contacted the author of the font and waiting for his response.
Comment 5 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-11-11 14:26:32 UTC
(In reply to MalangBadshah from comment #4)
> I checked with LibreOffice 5 in Fedora 23 Beta Virtual machine and here are
> the results.

Thanks for the follow-up!

> It appears that the problem is with one font (Nafees Nastaleeq). I am not
> sure if the problematic font is bitmap or scalable. I have contacted the
> author of the font and waiting for his response.

Sounds good.
Status -> NEEDINFO

Please change the status back to UNCONFIRMED once you have info from the font author. Thanks!
Comment 6 Xisco Faulí 2016-09-11 20:12:03 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 MalangBadshah 2016-09-12 08:58:38 UTC
Created attachment 127265 [details]
font_name_size_garbled_image
Comment 8 MalangBadshah 2016-09-12 09:04:44 UTC
I contacted the author but unfortunately didn't receive any feedback. I am inclined to the opinion that 'nafees-nastaleeq' is a bitmap font while 'jameel-noori-nastaleeq' seems to be an svg based font. 

Another related issue is the garbled font name and size as shown in the attached image.
Comment 9 Aron Budea 2016-09-13 05:30:49 UTC
I could swear there was a similar issue 2-3 months ago about font names overwriting previous entries in font selection combo box, but can't find it. Likely it was also UNCONFIRMED, too, so no big deal.
Comment 10 Buovjaga 2016-09-13 12:22:49 UTC
(In reply to Aron Budea from comment #9)
> I could swear there was a similar issue 2-3 months ago about font names
> overwriting previous entries in font selection combo box, but can't find it.
> Likely it was also UNCONFIRMED, too, so no big deal.

Maybe bug 100398?
Comment 11 Aron Budea 2016-09-14 05:49:48 UTC
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #10)
> Maybe bug 100398?
I'm thinking of a different one (I can recall seeing a screenshot), but this looks like the same issue, too.
Comment 12 Aron Budea 2016-09-17 07:01:05 UTC
Found the garbled font name issues I was thinking of: bug 99134 and bug 99736.
That bug should be fixed in recent releases (5.2).
Comment 13 Buovjaga 2016-09-17 17:12:20 UTC
Malang: can you test with LibreOffice 5.2.1?

Set to NEEDINFO.
Change back to UNCONFIRMED, if the problem persists. Change to RESOLVED DUPLICATE of 99134, if the problem went away.
Comment 14 QA Administrators 2017-03-28 08:17:50 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 15 QA Administrators 2017-05-02 11:34:13 UTC
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