Re: [OOo-Hebrew] Strange bug: transposed parantheses in PDF

On 12/31/06, Nadav Har'El <[email protected]> wrote:
> For some time now, I've been annoyed by a strange bug in OpenOffice, and
> I wonder if anyone else noticed it, or can explain it (if not, I guess I'll
> open a bug report on it...).

I think there is a bug report, took me forever to find it....

>
> The problem is that sometimes, when I export a document from OpenOffice to
> PDF, the parantheses are written reversed (left and right parantheses are
> transposed). Everything else - writing direction, fonts, and so on - comes
> out perfect. The strange thing is that the parantheses look correct on the
> screen, and also on PostScript export - they just come out wrong on PDF.
>
> After some experimentation, I noticed that the problem is somehow specific
> to the Culmus fonts: If I switch to Microsoft's TrueType fonts (even on Linux)
> the parantheses are not reversed on the PDF.

FreeSans also work well.

>
> Is this issue familar to anyone? Can anyone else replicate it?
> Any guesses on what kind of strange interaction between OpenOffice, PDF and
> Culmus could be causing this problem?

Just a wild guess, parenthesis are Latin and text is Hebrew. Might be
unneeded LRM code?

>
> I'm using OpenOffice that comes with Fedora Core 6, by the way, but I
> noticed this problem for at least a year now in many versions of OpenOffice.

Same in Ubuntu/Kubuntu, both in ubuntu packages and in the installer
from openoffice.org.
Not in Windows (even with Culmus for windows)
>
> Thanks,
> Nadav.
>
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