Description of problem: their are three punctuation glyphs that are a little off position they are : key <AE02> { [ 2, at , 0x10005b2 ]}; // H. Patah key <AE03> { [ 3, numbersign , 0x10005b3 ]}; // H. Qamats key <AE04> { [ 4, dollar , 0x10005b4 ]}; // Hiriq (according to the xorg's hebrew il layout file in : file:///usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/il ) I am attaching a screen capture with an OpenOffice document and a generated PDF of the same document. (funny... the pdf almost generate it correctly) you can see in the photo how it should be as displayed with fonts: "Ezra Sil" and "Deja Vu Sans" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.0-1-fc8 How reproducible: write some hebrew text and adding the punctuation marks (Win+2/3/4) (using Open Office 2.2 Writer) Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: should be similar to "Ezra Sil" or "Deja Vu Sans" fonts Additional info:
Created attachment 294421 [details] screen capture of hebrew punctuation off position in liberation sans fonts
Created attachment 294422 [details] original odt file
Created attachment 294424 [details] generated pdf file
i've just downloaded "fontmatrix" and "fontforge" and found out that liberation fonts does not have Hebrew glyphs implemented at all :-( i was actually getting another font instead of liberation when i choose it in Writer (Open Office) and i didn't know. i'll try to figure out which font it really is. any ideas how i could do that ?
Hi Nadev, On gnome desktop, press alt-f2 to open 'run application' window. Input 'gucharmap' to open character map. Click 'menu > 'by unicode block', select hebrew on the left list. On the characters in the right hand side grid, right click and hold. You will see which font is used to display such character. on my RHEL5 machine, it shows either 'Miriam Mono CLM' or 'Aharoni CLM'. Please reconfirm openoffice is using such two fonts on your machine for those characters. Feel free to reopen this bug if you found this is still liberation-font's defect. Thank you very much. Best Regards, Caius.
I'll check this again on my F8 machine.
According to bug# 431608, I would close this bug by similar reason.
thank you for "Discovering America" for me :-) i did not knew that gucharmap could do that ! (btw. do you know a tool that can show the font family/name of the underling text under the mouse pointer ? ) i had other UI font issues with OOo 2.3 see bugs: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431608 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434705 after a complete system update... OOo version 2.3 the issue was gone :-) i found out that "Liberation Sans" font was using "DejaVu Sans" for hebrew glyphs and that it is working just fine ! which means: punctuation marks are positioned correctly :-) let's close this one ;-)
(In reply to comment #8) > (btw. do you know a tool that can show the font family/name of the underling > text under the mouse pointer ? ) AFAIK, sorry no. :)