Abiword-2.6 is now using Pango for text rendering which improves its Arabic support substantially, but it still have some bugs. Please help testing it.
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From: Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [Localization] Fwd: Help requested test bidi/complex scripts for
abiword stable branch.
Hi, forwarding this request for help from the Abiword developers.
Would be great to improve Write's script support for the next
milestone (due in August).
Thanks!
Tomeu
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From: Martin Edmund Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Subject: Help requested test bidi/complex scripts for abiword stable branch.
To: Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everyone,
AbiWord provides the foundation for the write activity
within sugar. Very recently we discovered critical bu in our 2.6
series which manifested itself as inconsistent layout and printing.
Fixing this required substantial changes to our core graphics
rendering classes. This might have affected AbiWord's (and hence
Write's) ability to render bidirectional text and complex scripts.
Unfortunately our core abiword hackers are not proficient at either of
these so I'm asking for help from people who know about bi-directional
text and/or complex texts.
Please build our stable branch of the our code and report your tests
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can checkout the correct branch with this svn command.
svn co http://svn.abisource.com/abiword/branches/ABI-2-6-0-STABLE/ abiword-2.6
You'll need the development versions of a number of libraries to build
abiword though if your ever managed to build write via sugar-jhbuild
you'll have what you need already. More information is in
abiword-2.6/docs/build.txt
Thank you very much. All help is appreciated.
Cheers
Martin
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