PDF export is broken

Matt Reimer mattjreimer at gmail.com
Fri Sep 1 18:43:47 UTC 2006


On 9/1/06, Laszlo Karoly <laszlokaroly at hung.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I think that the FreeBSD version of OO.org 2.0 has a strange bug in PDF
> export. Generally speaking it works fine. However it cannot handle the
> diacritic marks in the correct way, i.e. marks positioned by OpenType
> GPOS script are not in the correct position. On the screen these marks
> appear as they should be, but in the generated PDF both the base glyph
> and the mark are shifted up or down. The Windows version does the job fine.
> You can see the problem in the following files:
> ftp://www.alt.u-szeged.hu/pub/OO.org/Test.odt
> ftp://www.alt.u-szeged.hu/pub/OO.org/Test_FreeBSD.pdf
> ftp://www.alt.u-szeged.hu/pub/OO.org/Test_Windows.pdf
>
> Best wishes, Laci
>
> - --
> László Károly                   <laszlokaroly at hung.u-szeged.hu>
> Department of Altaic Studies                    Egyetem str. 2.
> University of Szeged                     H-6722 Szeged, Hungary

This is most likely not a FreeBSD-specific problem, but probably
occurs on all platforms that use ICU for rendering. Please enter a bug
in OpenOffice.org's issue tracker.

Matt


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