Issue 86334 - wordart does not display hebrew font glyphs (in non-hebrew fonts)
Summary: wordart does not display hebrew font glyphs (in non-hebrew fonts)
Status: ACCEPTED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.4 RC1
Hardware: All Linux, all
: P3 Trivial with 11 votes (vote)
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Reported: 2008-02-21 22:41 UTC by nadavkav
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:17 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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hebrew glyphs are not displayed correctly in wordart object when font does not have hebrew glyphs in it (13.14 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2008-02-26 19:08 UTC, nadavkav 		no flags Details
hebrew glyphs are not displayed correctly in wordart object when font does not have hebrew glyphs in it (139.40 KB, application/pdf)
2008-02-26 19:09 UTC, nadavkav 		no flags Details
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Description nadavkav 2008-02-21 22:41:18 UTC 
after reading : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ
to figure out where the issue lyes, this is what i think is happening...
 
when using a non-hebrew font (that has no hebrew glyphs) the wordart
font-substitution engine does not change to some pre-defined hebrew supported
font so it could display the glyphs like Writer's normal text engine does.

using the "Font Replacement Table" with "my defined font substitutions" it works
fine :-) BUT... i can not guess all the fonts out there ;-)

here are two samples;

using font "Andale Mono", some bizarre glyphs are located in the font table
position where hebrew glyphs should be and this is the result:
http://picasaweb.google.com/nadavkav/Screen_capture/photo#5169559106004389954

using font "Liberation Sans", no hebrew font table at all. so no glyphs are
displayed :
http://picasaweb.google.com/nadavkav/Screen_capture/photo#5169559106004389970

open type and true type correct hebrew fonts work fine :-)

i saw old issue reports that i'm not sure if the were supposed to deal with this
same issue:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=70290
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=16248
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2008-02-26 12:51:16 UTC 
Could you please attach a small sample document? This would easy our work very
much. Thanks in advance!
Comment 2 nadavkav 2008-02-26 19:08:24 UTC 
Created attachment 51730 [details]
hebrew glyphs are not displayed correctly in wordart object when font does not have hebrew glyphs in it
Comment 3 nadavkav 2008-02-26 19:09:10 UTC 
Created attachment 51731 [details]
hebrew glyphs are not displayed correctly in wordart object when font does not have hebrew glyphs in it
Comment 4 michael.ruess 2008-02-27 09:52:37 UTC 
MRU->HDU: could you please have a look? When I open the attached document on my
windows system, Hebrew glyphs in all objects look fine. When opening on my SUSE
10.2 system, both objects do not show correctly. Maybe even do not have a
matching substitution font available...
Comment 5 nadavkav 2008-03-07 13:15:58 UTC 
my guess is that "Word Art" engine is not using font-config to get font
substitutions as does OO's "normal text" engine.
Comment 6 kaplanlior 2008-04-09 11:45:32 UTC 
kaplan -> hdu : 

I can confirm the problem with Debian GNU/Linux and oo.org 2.4.0. I get the same
result as described in the PDF.

Please change status to NEW.
Comment 7 hdu@apache.org 2008-04-09 12:47:57 UTC 
will look into it
Comment 8 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:17:55 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".