Description of problem: Openoffice writer does not display documents in hebrew. Empty spaces are displayed instead of hebrew letters Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-writer-2.0.2-5.7.2 and openoffice.org-writer-2.0.2-5.8.2 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open any documents with hebrew text. Either openoffice (.odt) or MS word document. 2. 3. Actual results: Empty spaces or boxes are displayed instead of hebrew text. Expected results: Display document Additional info:
Created attachment 128420 [details] Document that is not displayed properly.
Created attachment 128446 [details] screenshot Here's how it looks for me. Is this correct ? I assume you have a different appearance ? if so do you have fonts-hebrew installed ? If you have openoffice.org-langpack-langpack-he_IL installed that should have pulled in those hebrew fonts as a dependancy. > rpm -q fonts-hebrew
Please advise, is your problem visible in my screeshot ?
Created attachment 128477 [details] That's how document looks
On your screenshot the document looks correctly. I attached my screenshot. I do have openoffice.org-langpack-langpack-he_IL and fonts-hebrew, as well as fonts-hebrew-fancy installed. Also, after I added some windows fonts, the document display became correct. Yet, I tried it with Ubuntu (LiveCD) without windows fonts and it displays correctly there.
On a stock FC-5 with "fonts-hebrew" installed and latest update 2.0.2-5.9.2 all is well for me
Still doesn't work here.
I can't reproduce this, Ideally you could help out by removing all your non fedora-core fonts except for fonts-hebrew and verify that it is still broken after stopping and restarting OOo. Or if it is not broken, add back the removed font packages until the font which causes the problem is revealed. Presumably copying the broken text from oowriter into gedit does not show the problem ?
Ok. The problem is fonts-hebrew-fancy from the extras. If I remove them, document is displayed fine, with or without windows TTF fonts.
frustratingly if I install fonts-hebrew and fonts-hebrew-fancy on my stock fc-5 box I still don't have a problem with this document and openoffice.org-2.0.2-9.2 what does > fc-match 'Arial':lang=he say ?
I tried it in few combinations: When only fonts-hebrew and fonts-hebrew-fancy installed (without windows fonts, document is garbled): ComixNo2CLM-Medium.pfa: "Comix No2 CLM" "Medium" With fonts-hebrew and windows fonts (got same result, no matter whether fonts-hebrew-fancy installed or not, document looks ok): arial.ttf: "Arial" "Regular" Only fonts-hebrew installed (document looks ok): FrankRuehlCLM-Medium.pfa: "Frank Ruehl CLM" "Medium"
Still no luck, have you customized your /etc/fonts in any way ? if so can I get a tarball of /etc/fonts ?
Created attachment 128933 [details] my /etc/fonts dir No, as far as I know.
The glyph fallback order must be the same problem here as it was in bug 200805. That would explain this font-dependant behaviour *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 200805 ***