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                 Issue #|106833
                 Summary|Some letters are omitted when printing
               Component|gsl
                 Version|OOO310m19
                Platform|PC
                     URL|
              OS/Version|Linux
                  Status|UNCONFIRMED
       Status whiteboard|
                Keywords|
              Resolution|
              Issue type|DEFECT
                Priority|P2
            Subcomponent|www
             Assigned to|pl
             Reported by|alexps





------- Additional comments from [email protected] Wed Nov 11 20:07:21 
+0000 2009 -------
When printing documents some letters for certain fonts are omitted. The issue
was experienced when printing from Writer and Calc.

Russian capital letter “Short I”, U+0419 is omitting when occurred with
following fonts: Arial, Courier New, and Times New Roman. Russian small letter
“Be”, U+0431 is omitting when occurred with DejaVu Sans.
The issue lead to corrupted parer printout. Printout depends on version of cups
using, it can look, as a space instead of the letter omitted or letter is
omitted without any space and some space is inserted further in text shifting a
symbol in place partially over the next one.
The issue remains when printing into PDF via cups-pdf. PDF document generated
this way looks the same as paper printout described above.
The issue doesn't appear when document is exported to PDF first, then PDF
document is printed. This is the only way found to bypass the issue.

Attached zip contains:
mistyped-fonts.odt      initial document that contains samples with letters and
fonts in subject. All paragraphs (lines) are the same text containing U+0431 at
4th position (counting from 1) and  U+0419 at 20th position. There are 4
paragraphs per font, with different font styles: regular, italic, bold, and
bold italic. Last 4 paragraphs are in Microsoft Verdana font that has no signs
of the issue, those are given as sample;
mistyped-fonts.pdf      pdf “printout”, generated by cups-pdf;
mistyped-fonts.ps       “Print into file” output;
mistyped-fonts-exported.pdf     export into PDF output, clean against the
issue, as it was noted above.

I tried to analyze postscript file that is saved when “Print into file” is
checked. As I can see, there is no glyphs defined in the file for the letters
that will be omitted when printing. For example, for ArialMTFID33HGSet2, there
is no glyph set for “Encoding 14” (that corresponds to U+0419, 0x0E in the
output later in file). The VerdanaFID59HGSet2 has “Encoding 14” glyph defined
and is Verdana is printed out correctly.

Environment:
OS: Kubuntu 9.04
OOo: OOO310m19. Build 9420.
DejaVu Sans font from OS distribution, also latest version from dejavu-
Microsoft TTF fonts concerned were installed by “msttcorefonts” package that
downloads them from sourceforge.net.

The issue is very serious for Russian-speaking users, especially for not a lot
IT-experienced office-sitter users in Belarus and Russia where the majority of
the state institutions as well as many private companies use Microsoft document
formats and their fonts as standards, issuing such documents outside and
expecting or even requiring them on entry. Given such a document received, user
may print it out and use further officially even not knowing that printout
contains letters omitted.

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