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Stacked on #940. It contains all of #940 (Arabic shaping in PDF) and adds cell direction and right-to-left sheet geometry (M12.AR5). Review the diff against #940's branch; once #940 merges, this PR is up to date with it.

Summary

PDF export now honors cell Context, Left-to-Right and Right-to-Left settings. Wrapped lines keep their paragraph direction. Right-to-left sheets place columns, repeated headings, merged cells and objects in the same order as the grid, and explicit Left and Right alignment stay on the side the grid shows them.

 PDF export
- infer each line separately; place every sheet left to right
+ preserve cell direction across lines; mirror RTL sheet positions
+ reject oversized text before appending an incomplete PDF block

Depends on #940 (Arabic PDF glyphs). The cell reading direction it reads landed with #947.

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  • Before: PDF ignored explicit reading order and RTL sheet layout. A public size-limit probe returned a PDF with an unmatched marked-content block.
    After: Direction, wrapped paragraphs, numeric brackets, RTL columns, headings, objects, clipping and sparklines have focused regressions. The same size-limit probe returns an error; its regression failed before the fix and passes afterward.
  • At the current head, with Noto Sans Arabic installed and no CRAFT_FONTS_DIR: the gridcraft-pdf and gridcraft-engine tests, workspace clippy and fmt pass. The full cargo xtask ci with the craft-fonts bundle relies on the hosted gate.
  • Poppler rendering inspected for LTR and RTL sheets. Bounding boxes confirm reversed column positions; logical Arabic strings remain searchable. No physical printer test.

Merge Danger

Door: Two-way. Revert the commit to restore prior export behavior.

Blast Radius: PDF. Explicit cell direction is shared with XLSX persistence. Latin text retains the standard-font path, including forced RTL numeric text without an Arabic font.

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  • New Features
    • PDF exports now shape Arabic text and preserve its searchable logical text, alongside mixed right-to-left and left-to-right content.
    • Right-to-left sheets now mirror page layout, including cells, drawings, headings, and link targets, while keeping text readable.
    • Arabic fonts are used when available; exports fall back to standard fonts when needed and display a message if no Arabic font is available.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Text wrapping, alignment, spacing, and cell reading direction now account for text direction and Arabic glyph dimensions.

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PDF export now supports shaped Arabic text, direction-aware layout, and mirrored right-to-left sheets. The engine wraps and draws text using resolved direction. PDF finalization returns errors and Arabic-font fallback status.

Changes: Arabic PDF and RTL Export

Layer / File(s) Summary
Arabic font inputs and glyph shaping
crates/pdf/build.rs, crates/pdf/Cargo.toml, crates/pdf/src/arabic.rs, ATTRIBUTION.md, crates/pdf/README.md
The PDF crate validates bundled Arabic-font inputs, selects bundled or installed faces, shapes Arabic text, and writes Type3 subsets with Unicode mappings. Attribution and package descriptions document the font inputs and Arabic output.
Direction-aware PDF drawing and errors
crates/pdf/src/lib.rs, crates/pdf/src/tests.rs
The PDF API measures and draws text by direction, tracks rendering errors, and includes Arabic font resources. PdfDoc::finish returns a result; tests cover shaping, direction, mappings, and limits.
Direction-aware text layout and wrapping
crates/engine/Cargo.toml, crates/engine/src/cmd/print/text.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/print/objects.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/print/tests.rs
The engine resolves text direction per paragraph, wraps at grapheme boundaries, and applies direction-aware measurements and drawing to cell text and shape text. Tests cover Arabic output, reading order, wrapping, and text direction.
RTL sheet geometry and PDF export integration
crates/engine/src/cmd/print.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/print/draw.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/print/objects.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/print/tests.rs, ROADMAP.md, docs/*
The engine mirrors RTL sheet content, objects, and link targets. PDF export returns page count and Arabic-font fallback status, and queues a message when Arabic-font support is unavailable. Tests and documentation record the export behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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sequenceDiagram
  participant build_pdf
  participant render_pdf
  participant PdfDoc
  participant arabic_layout as arabic::layout
  build_pdf->>render_pdf: Request PDF export
  render_pdf->>PdfDoc: Draw sheet content
  PdfDoc->>arabic_layout: Shape Arabic text when needed
  arabic_layout-->>PdfDoc: Return shaped layout or error
  render_pdf->>PdfDoc: Finalize PDF
  PdfDoc-->>render_pdf: Return PDF bytes or error
  render_pdf-->>build_pdf: Return rendered result
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Security architecture risk: Low · up to 8a965

The reviewed paths preserve workbook protection and prevent rendering failures from publishing incomplete exports. No introduced security flaw was established. Font-dependent behavior and compatibility with external callers remain verification limits.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected attacker-controlled surface is workbook text and formatting processed by an export operation. Failures affect that operation and its prospective output; font caches are process-wide, while page content and glyph subsets belong to individual pages. Deployment-level tenant isolation and maximum aggregate export exposure are not established by the supplied evidence.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Workbook text can trigger Arabic font processing but does not supply the font pathname in the inspected loader. Build-bundle paths are canonicalized and constrained to the configured root, with checksum and glyph-coverage validation. Native fallback reads recognized filenames from system and environment-derived font directories with a 64 MiB input limit.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Arabic processing limits each input line to 128 KiB and each page subset to 16,384 distinct glyph entries and 64 MiB of tracked outline/source data. Text drawing checks the complete generated block against the page-content limit before appending it and records failure for finalization. These are local bounds, not a demonstrated aggregate CPU or memory budget for an entire export.
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The title "Preserve Arabic cell direction and RTL sheet layout in PDF exports" matches the main changes in the changeset. The raw summary shows Arabic PDF shaping, cell reading direction preserved through wrapping and drawing, and RTL sheets mirrored across print drawing, objects, text, and links. The title is specific, single-sentence, and free of file lists or vague terms. The title is slightly long at 66 characters, but it stays clear and readable.

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Minor · Mirror hyperlink rectangles and internal link targets on RTL sheets. · print.rs:1058-1071

crates/engine/src/cmd/print.rs:1058-1071
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Mirror hyperlink rectangles and internal link targets on RTL sheets.

When sh.right_to_left is true, draw_block_links still uses b.rect(cell_range) and unmirrored block bounds. The annotation can cover the wrong cell. printed_target also uses the unmirrored PrintedBlock.x, so internal links can land at the wrong horizontal position.

Use b.drawn_rect(cell_range) and mirror the block bounds. Store the mirror axis and sheet direction in PrintedBlock, then mirror the target x-coordinate by the target cell width.

🐛 Suggested fix
-    let (Some(&bx), Some(&by), Some(&right), Some(&bottom)) = (b.xs.first(), b.ys.first(), b.xs.last(), b.ys.last()) else { return };
+    let (Some(&bx0), Some(&by), Some(&right0), Some(&bottom)) = (b.xs.first(), b.ys.first(), b.xs.last(), b.ys.last()) else { return };
+    let (bx, right) = (b.text_x(bx0, right0 - bx0), b.text_x(bx0, right0 - bx0) + (right0 - bx0));
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-        let (x, y, w, h) = b.rect(cell_range);
+        let (x, y, w, h) = b.drawn_rect(cell_range);
 struct PrintedBlock {
     page: usize,
     sheet: usize,
     rows: (u32, u32),
     cols: (u32, u32),
     x: f32,
     y: f32,
     k: f32,
+    mirror_axis: f32,
+    right_to_left: bool,
 }
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-    let x = block.x + (sh.col_left(cell.col) - sh.col_left(block.cols.0)) as f32 * block.k;
+    let raw_x = block.x + (sh.col_left(cell.col) - sh.col_left(block.cols.0)) as f32 * block.k;
+    let cell_width = sh.col_width(cell.col) * block.k;
+    let x = if block.right_to_left {
+        block.mirror_axis - raw_x - cell_width
+    } else {
+        raw_x
+    };
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Update draw_block_links to use b.drawn_rect for hyperlink cells and mirror its
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@coderabbitai Thanks, valid: PDF hyperlinks (#954) landed on main after this PR was written, so they weren't mirrored. Fixed in d594c95:

  • draw_block_links mirrors each clipped link rectangle with b.text_x. Clipping before mirroring gives the same box, since the block bounds mirror with it.
  • PrintedBlock keeps mirror_axis: Option<f32> (set only for right-to-left sheets), and printed_target mirrors the target cell's left edge by its width.
  • New test right_to_left_sheets_mirror_link_rectangles_and_targets exports the same sheet left-to-right and right-to-left and checks that the link /Rect and the /XYZ target mirror about the page width. It fails without the fix.

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… lacks a character or is missing (review)

Characters the Arabic face lacks are drawn the way non-Arabic text is
(standard fonts or the CID font). With no bundled or installed Arabic
face, Arabic text takes the standard-font path and the export shows a
message once. Only a broken font or a size limit still fails the export.
# Conflicts:
#	ROADMAP.md
#	docs/file-format-parity.md
#	docs/localization-parity.md
…-direction

# Conflicts:
#	ROADMAP.md
#	crates/pdf/src/arabic.rs
#	crates/pdf/src/lib.rs
#	crates/pdf/src/tests.rs
#	docs/file-format-parity.md
#	docs/gaps.md
#	docs/localization-parity.md
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This branch now includes #940's fixes for both P1s (merged in 816a6c0), so the two points you said it inherits no longer apply. A character the Arabic face lacks falls back like non-Arabic text, and a missing Arabic font exports ? with a message instead of failing.

With #947 merged, this diff is now #940 plus this PR's print and PDF direction commit. The merge needed one follow-up: the RTL mirroring test read render_pdf's old tuple result and now reads .bytes (0d7334a). The gridcraft-pdf and gridcraft-engine tests and clippy (pdf, engine, ui-egui) pass locally. The Hebrew-through-CID gap you noted is unchanged.

Main's PDF writer now writes each object straight into the output and
tracks the graphics state (storytold#816). The Arabic subset fonts are written
with the same stream and dictionary helpers, the shaped-text block sets
its colours with push_rgb, and it is dropped at the 28-level q limit
like an image. Main's newer PDF tests read finish()'s Result.
…-direction

Brings in main through storytold#940. The direction-aware text paths keep their
split into shaped and standard text on main's writer: the standard path
sets its colour through the tracked style and its matrix after the first
font, the shaped path respects the q nesting limit, and WordArt shadows
and outlines are drawn with each line's direction. The RTL sparkline test
finds the path line now that line styles follow the stroke colour.
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Without an Arabic face for the text's weight, Arabic is set in the CID
font, which has no Arabic glyphs, so readers show blanks or boxes rather
than `?`. The export message no longer says `?` or "not installed": it
also appears for bold text with only the regular face, and on the web,
where the font is not bundled. The docs say the same.

The VML pass-through assertion is back to main's version, and the line
comments this PR added are removed.
…-direction

Brings in storytold#940's corrected no-font message and docs. Conflicts keep this
branch's direction-aware code without the line comments storytold#940 removed;
the two comments this PR added (sparkline mirroring, grapheme breaking)
go too. The gaps and file-format headers now name this PR's change.
…heet

The grid swaps explicit Left and Right before mirroring a right-to-left
sheet, so they land where the user put them; the PDF mirrored them
unswapped, printing Align Left on the right. text_align now swaps them
the same way. General alignment is unchanged.
Without a face the text takes the standard-font path, which has no
128 KiB shaping limit, so the export succeeds; the test checks that PDF
instead of expecting the error.
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Minor · Remove the completed Arabic PDF work from this remaining-work list. · gaps.md:62

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Remove the completed Arabic PDF work from this remaining-work list.

Line 57 limits the PDF gap to scripts outside Arabic. Line 67 confirms Arabic shaping and RTL export. However, this second Missing entry still lists unrestricted “non-Latin PDF” work. Consolidate the two Missing entries so contributors do not select completed Arabic PDF work.

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Update the “Missing” entry in the remaining-work list to exclude completed Arabic PDF work and consolidate it with the other PDF gap entry, while retaining the still-missing CJK fallback, complex shaping for other scripts, bidi, and non-Latin PDF work that remains outstanding.

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@coderabbitai Valid, fixed in 028d80a: the second Missing entry in docs/gaps.md §5 now says "non-Latin PDF outside Arabic", matching the first. Merging the two entries is left alone here; the duplicate came from main, not this PR.

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set -u
printf '%s\n' '--- Locate referenced documentation ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- Documentation section ---'
rg -n -C 4 'non-Latin PDF|^## .*5|^\*\*Missing\*\*' docs/gaps.md
printf '%s\n' '--- Reported commit ---'
git show --format=fuller --stat 028d80a2 -- docs/gaps.md
git show --format= -- docs/gaps.md 028d80a2 2>/dev/null || true
printf '%s\n' '--- Print drawing outline ---'
ast-grep outline crates/engine/src/cmd/print/draw.rs --items all --match 'draw_block_links|printed_target|PrintedBlock|text_x' --view expanded || true
printf '%s\n' '--- RTL links and target context ---'
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@Mouhand-Kaddo Thanks for the fix. I verified that both entries in docs/gaps.md now say “non-Latin PDF outside Arabic” at Line 57 and Line 62.

Would you like a follow-up issue to merge the duplicate entries?


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## Roadmap

`ROADMAP.md` (committed) is the one-page summary: stage, headline numbers, dimensions, languages, progress log. It points at the detail in `docs/`: `target-app-parity.md` (authoritative assessment), `gaps.md` (ranked work list: pick from it), `roadmap.md` (current focus, beta gates, milestones), `architecture.md`, and the area checklists `function-parity.md`, `chart-parity.md`, `file-format-parity.md`, `ui-parity.md`, `hardware-parity.md`, `localization-parity.md`. Update the affected docs (and their timestamp lines and revision history) whenever work lands. `cargo xtask parity` regenerates `docs/parity-checklist.md` from `crates/engine/src/catalog.rs`.

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