Summary: | Digit characters saved with different associated language/font when exporting DOCX | ||
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Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1> |
Component: | Writer | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
Status: | NEW --- | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | xiscofauli |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 4.1 all versions | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
See Also: |
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151215 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148257 |
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Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
Bug Depends on: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 104520, 155489 | ||
Attachments: |
Document exhibiting the bug
A document exhibiting the bug LO Writer 7.0.3.1 rendering of testcase document MS Word rendering of testcase document Renderings in LO Writer and in MS Word |
Description
Eyal Rozenberg
2020-04-09 12:01:42 UTC
Created attachment 159456 [details]
Document exhibiting the bug
The digit glyphs in the attached document should appear in Times New Roman font when opened in MS Word, but in David font in LO Writer.
Reproduced in Version: 7.0.0.0.alpha1+ Build ID: 1ffe59ef31186e36ad0aa7bbcdd32e407ee8d26c CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.19; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded and Version 4.1.0.0.alpha0+ (Build ID: efca6f15609322f62a35619619a6d5fe5c9bd5a) I should stress that even though this bug was only filed this year, it is very fundamental and problematic. Even though it doesn't prevent working with the saved document, it means that you absolutely cannot get a document created in LO to look, in MS-Word, as though it had been created with MS-Word. Moreover, this bug manifests almost universally - as almost any RTL-language document has _some_ digits _somewhere_, making it extremely high-visibility. The above also has a significant negative impact on the willingness of people to switch to LO. When a prospective user sees that using LO "messes up the fonts" - even if, semantically, the difference is subtle - they conclude that weird things will happen to their document in general if they switch. Out of all the outstanding RTL-LTR bugs, this should be - IMHO - either the most highly-prioritized or one of the few most-prioritized. Created attachment 168510 [details]
A document exhibiting the bug
Made the testcase document easier to reproduce, in that it doesn't require the presence of David CLM (which MS-Word users don't automatically have). Now, the RTL text is in Arial font, and the LTR font is Times New Roman - so the difference is clearer. Will also post a couple of screenshots.
Created attachment 168513 [details]
LO Writer 7.0.3.1 rendering of testcase document
Created attachment 168517 [details]
MS Word rendering of testcase document
This is what the document looks like in a recent version of MS Word (Office 365 MSO 16.0.something, the version numbers have been getting weirder I think).
Created attachment 168518 [details]
Renderings in LO Writer and in MS Word
Sized and somewhat-aligned the renderings to emphasize the difference. Remember - focus on the font of the digits, not the differences in the rendering of fonts overall (which is partly due to my resizing, and partly due to Linux-vs-Windows font rendering engine).
I agree. I think this is pretty bad and looks unprofessional. |