Re: Serious problems with Arabic text rendering

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 04:15:08PM +0330, Hossein Noorikhah wrote:
> Salaam,
>
> I'm using "Microsoft Windows 7", but other users using "Ubuntu Linux"
> reported similar problems.

I'd be interested in Linux reports of issue 1 (issue 2 is hopeless, I
have a vague idea how to fix the root of it, instead of band-aiding it
allover the place, but it is too much work than I can afford).

Regards,
Khaled

> Hossein
>
>
> 2013/10/29 Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
>
> > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 03:48:01PM +0330, Hossein Noorikhah wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Starting with version LibreOffice 3.6, we had some issues with Arabic
> > text
> > > rendering in LibreOffice. These issues got worse starting LO 4.0. I hoped
> > > that patches which some developers provided [1], may fix the bugs. But
> > > right now I'm using LO v4.1.2.3 and nearly most of the problems that have
> > > been fixed in OpenOffice versions prior to 3.0 are now visible again.
> > >
> > > For example these are serious and were all fixed prior to OpenOffice 3.0:
> > >
> > > 1. Text rendering cuts and continues out of the border. (attached
> > picture 1)
> >
> > On what OS is that?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Khaled