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Date:      Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:13:52 +0200
From:      <georg.wagner@ubs.com>
To:        <mreimer@vpop.net>, <openoffice@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: problems with arabic fonts with openoffice 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <8287EE790874564D83BF85FDAD8A8C52015DEBFE@s01b1f3b.flur.zuerich.ubs.ch>

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Hi Matthew,

The latest version (1.1.3) for FBSD 4.10 does not have this problem =
anymore.
On the older 1.1.3-Version for 5.3 I found a work-araound by setting
export SAL_AUTOHINTING_PRIORITY=3D0 in soffice

This fixed the glyph positioning-problem for arabic fonts.

Thanks

Georg
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-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Reimer [mailto:mreimer@vpop.net]
Sent: Donnerstag, 16. September 2004 18:53
To: openoffice@freebsd.org
Cc: Wagner, Georg
Subject: Re: problems with arabic fonts with openoffice 1.1.2 and 1.1.3
on FreeBSD


Georg Wagner wrote:

> I have tested OOo 1.1.2 and OOo 1.1.3 on FreeBSD 5.2.1 (XFree86 and
> Xorg) and 4.10/XFree86 .
>=20
> On both platforms there is a problem with arabic fonts. They are not
> rendered correctly. All letters of  arabic texts are more or less
> written on a heap (above each other).
>=20
> I suppose that these error is platform dependant since I did not hear
> about any problems with linux recently. But I know that Mandrake Linux
> has had this problem too. On this platform it was related to the =
version
> of libfreetype.
>=20
> Is this error already known or even beeing actively investigated? =
Since
> this error seems to be platform related to whom should I send an error
> report?
>=20
> Regards
>=20
> Georg Wagner

Does this describe your problem:

 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3D28567

Matt



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