Hi Prakash, I need fop to be able to handle arabic text. I tried to generate a PDF file with the Sebastian fop code, but the arabic text is not correctly shaped. I must be doing something wrong... Can you please send me an example?
Thanks in advance. best regards, Sérgio Lopes Prakash sen wrote: > > Hi, > > I am not sure on the licensing part as sebastian did some changes in > FOP code and he provided me the jars. And as per what i had checked those > jar print arabic correctly. > Possibly he will only be able to answer and I am nots ure whether the > change was made keeping FOP standards. He was planning to do bidi > algorithm, no idea whether he worked on it later and whether he > contribuited the below change to FOP. > > Below were his comments - > If I set the writing-mode to rl-tb my text is flipped vertical. This > happens > because the CTM class rotates the transformation matrix for rendering > according to the writing mode. If I want to write right-to-left this has > nothing to do with mirroring of cause and I disabled it, because I want to > print arabic text. So what is the purpose of mirroring in rl-tb > writing-mode? What errors will appear if I disable the CTM.getWMctm() > function that does the mirroring according to the writing-mode? > I achived printing (pdf) arabic text after some weeks of work ignoring any > xsl:fo recommendations. The most things I did in the TextLayoutManager. > Now > I'm thinking about implementing it according to the recommendations and > the > BIDI algorithm. > > Hi Prakash, > you can download the version of FOP that I use to print Arabic script from > www.anneundsebp.de/fop/fop.html > > I hope it works for you. Unfortunately I don't understand Arabic but I > know > that there are still some problems with the type setting. Maybe you can > inform me about bugs you'll find. > I'll add some explanations and the source code in a few days. > > Regards > Sebastian > > > > > > > > > > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Volunteering-to-work-on-FOP-development-tp25442059p26499904.html Sent from the FOP - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
