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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-34678

Wrong character spacing when printing arabic text to PDF output, and wrong text alignment when printing the same text with the same alignment options to a normal printer

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Details

    • Bug
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • P3: Somewhat important
    • None
    • 5.1.0
    • None
    •  - tried both Windows 7 64bit, and Windows XP (with Qt 4.8)
       - the printer: tried both HP 1018, and HP Laserjet P1005
       - Qt version: tried 4.8, and 5.1 both has the same problem.

    Description

      I'm trying to print an Arabic text to PDF file and to a normal printer using QPrinter. I face two different problems.

      First, when printing to PDF, text appears as if cracked; with spaces between characters (letters) that should be there.

      Second, when printing to a normal printer the text appears correct, but with [B]wrong[/B] text alignment !

      printing code:

      [CODE]void Widget::printDocument(QPainter &painter, QPrinter &printer)

      { qint32 margin = 40 ; QRect rct = printer.paperRect().adjusted(margin, margin, -margin, -margin) ; painter.drawRect(rct) ; QTextOption toption ; toption.setTextDirection(Qt::RightToLeft) ; QFont fontTitle("Arial", 36) ; fontTitle.setBold(true); painter.setFont(fontTitle); QString title = ui->leTitle->text().trimmed() ; toption.setAlignment(Qt::AlignTop|Qt::AlignHCenter); painter.drawText(rct.adjusted(0, 10, 0, 0), title, toption); QFont fontText("Arial", 28) ; painter.setFont(fontText) ; QString text = ui->teText->toPlainText() ; toption.setAlignment(Qt::AlignLeft|Qt::AlignHCenter); painter.drawText(rct.adjusted(0, 10+painter.fontMetrics().height()*4, 0, 0), text, toption); }

      void Widget::on_pbPDF_clicked()

      { QString fileName = QFileDialog::getSaveFileName(this, QString(), QString(), QString("*.pdf(*.pdf)")) ; if(fileName.isEmpty()) return ; QPrinter printer ; printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter::PdfFormat); printer.setOutputFileName(fileName); QPainter painter(&printer) ; printDocument(painter, printer) ; painter.end() ; QDesktopServices::openUrl(QUrl(fileName)) ; }

      [/CODE]

      attached a sample qt project that shows the problem. and the resulting pdf and how the resulting printed to a normal printer looks like .

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        1. problem_sample.zip
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          Ahmed Bedeer
        2. qt saved pdf vs ms-word pdf font-arial-bold-36pts.png
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          Ahmed Bedeer
        3. testPrint4.zip
          6 kB
          Sebastian Sauer
        4. testPrintPdf.png
          22 kB
          Sebastian Sauer

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