Request for testing - XPS documents with Right-to-Left text

Tuesday, 19 May 2009  |  brad hards

Its been a while since I did anything productive in KDE land, so thought I'd try to do something in a morning. Its hard freeze time, so that should be bug fixing. Bug 185532 was something I'd been thinking over for a while.

That bug basically deals with XPS documents that didn't render correctly with RTL text. It looked like a fairly standard Right-to-Left text problem, and I assumed there was just something I hadn't handled because none of the documents I look at are Right-to-Left. I am, after all, ignorant of both Hebrew and Arabic.

The fix turned out a bit more complicated, and I think also fixes up some other XPS rendering issues. If you have a collection of XPS documents, especially anything with Arabic or Hebrew text, and are OK with building KDE and applying patches, I'd appreciate any feedback. You can find the patch on KDE's ReviewBoard

Guidance:

  1. If your document works differently to an unpatched Okular, please add a comment at Bug 185532
  2. If your document doesn't work well, and is about equally bad in both patched and unpatched Okular, raise a new bug.

Thanks!

Brad