I stumbled onto this interesting project. Basically, this project wants to “take the things Ubuntu does and that are missing in Debian, and - where appliciable - put them in Debian.”
Project Page: http://utnubu.alioth.debian.org/
Finally got OpenOffice working right with arabic documents.
When I try to open Arabic documents that have been written in MSWord, the text would be invisible or unreadable somehow. If I highlight the text, I notice that it shows that is using some font that I don’t have, such as “Traditional Arabic” or “Arabic Transparent”. When I change the font of the highlighted text to some Arabic font on my system it becomes visible and look fine.
I solved this problem by:
1. sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
This fixed the fonts that were in originally in “Traditional Arabic” but it didn’t work for custom uncommon arabic fonts or “Arabic Transparent”
2. OpenOffice > Tools > Options > Openoffice.org > Fonts > Apply replacement Table, Then create a map between the non-existing arabic font and an existing font from your system.
For example, I made a replacement entry to replace “Arabic Transparent” with “ae_AlMohanad”. And we are done
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