Re: [libreoffice-users] Adding RTL support to Oracle pdf Import

2011/1/21 amine amine <ammine007@gmail.com>:
> Salam,
>
> in our company we need the ability to fill out foms in the arabic, english
> and french languages.
>
> Oracle PDF Import extension is OpenSource and Integrable to LibreOffice, the
> only issue we are facing with Adopting the LibreOffice suite in our
> organization is a little bug with handling arabic words
>
> The problem is that whitespaces between words are simply removed when
> opening the PDF with LibreOffice Draw, the same issue is faced with some
> special arabic characters like (  إ ة لإ   )
>
>  so for now i want to contribute to resolving this problem while Oracle PDF
> import extension is OpenSource, but i'm asking where can i find the best
> practices to develop LibreOffice extensions so that i stick with.
>
> Thank you all ! and good luck to you !

Hello Amine. Interestingly, I can confirm this with Arabic and not
with Hebrew. Therefore I do not believe it to be an RTL issue.

To clarify, with the PDF Import extension:
1) English text in PDF files opened in Draw have spaces between words
(correct behaviour).
2) Hebrew text in PDF files opened in Draw  have spaces between words
(correct behaviour).
3) Arabic text in PDF files opened in Draw do not have spaces between
words. Furthermore, combining characters (such as ت) that end a word
are combined with the letter beginning the following word. Therefore,
the issue is not just that the spaces are not being seen but rather
that all the spaces are actually removed from the string.

I will look for an issue on the OOo bug tracker. If I cannot find one,
I'll file one.

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Dotan Cohen

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