Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 116560
problem with the arabic characters لا لأ ﻹ while reading pdf with Draw
Last modified: 2013-04-02 19:30:54 UTC
Salam, In our company we are filling out pdf forms using three languages (arabic, english and french). We use OoO+PDFImport to (fill out) annotate our pdf forms. using english characters, opening the pdf with Draw "is correct" using french character, opening the pdf with Draw "is still correct" (but for some special characters like à and ç) using arabic characters, open the pdf with Draw "is still correct" (but for the only characters لا لأ لإ) pleaz have a look at the screenshots joined. I really do not know if it's a Draw problem or a PDFImportExtensio problem..? i'm facing this issue using OoO-3.2.1.4 + PDFImport extension-1.0.4 on both a Linux/Ubuntu-10.10-32bits machine and a WinXP machine. thank you for your time !
Created attachment 75606 [details] This is the odt file with the correct text in arabic that should appear once the exported pdf reopened with Draw
Created attachment 75607 [details] Here is my version info of OoO
Created attachment 75608 [details] Here is my exported pdf reopened with Draw, and the أ ا إ chars that are combined in لا لأ لإ are missing
Created attachment 75609 [details] Here is my exported pdf reopened with Evince (a pdf viewer for Linux), and the chars are correct, and thats is the normal behavior expected for Draw+PDFImport Extension
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Hi, I tested the same case and i get the same problem as described by this user. How to fix this ?
Created attachment 75611 [details] This is My Original Arab Text in odt format
Created attachment 75612 [details] When i converted into pdf everthing were OK
Created attachment 75613 [details] But when i Opened my pdf in openoffice draw to change my text the characters لا لأ لإ disappeared
Please attach adocument for testing, not only screenshots. Thanks.
Created attachment 75621 [details] arabic chars for testing لا لأ لإ لآ problems
Created attachment 75622 [details] arabic chars for testing لا لأ لإ لآ problems - the exported pdf file
Salam, thank you for your time ! here are the odt file and it's exported pdf file, filled correctly if it can help you : 1- in all the cases the characters لا لأ لإ لآ are not correctly handled, when opening the PDF file with (OoO-Draw + PDFImport-Extension) 2- their UTF-16 codes are ranging from FEF5->FEFC in Arabic Form presentation B 3- To write the لأ character in arabic we write first the ل char then the أ char. Using some fonts when writing in OoO-writer () --- the أ character in لأ is removed and we just see the ل character. e.g. لأ becomes ل (Dejavu sans) --- the أ character in لأ is substitued with the م character. e.g. --- the أ character in لأ is removed and the space after it is also removed e.g. لأ ق becomes لق (Courier 10 pitch, BitStream charter) The (Liberation serif fonts) is the only font that once the PDF opened with Draw, shows the لأ character but still removes any space after the لأ char or after the word that contain the لأ char, if any. Thank you for your efforts ! and good luck to you !
Salam, I think that this is the "unicode block" to add/support in the PDF import extension source code http://www.fontspace.com/unicode/block/Arabic+Presentation+Forms-B
This is a list of fonts that support characters in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B Unicode block. http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/arabic_presentation_forms_b/fontsupport.htm
Hi everyone, We try to migrate to the OoO, we use the arabic language in our enterprise, but we found problem when importing pdf forms that contains لا لأ لإ لآ characters as said before! We need this functionality because we cant to migrate from MS to Linux Is there any developer that has been assigned to this issue ...?
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