On 07.01.2010 12:28, Vincent Hennebert wrote:
And this is only half of the story. Changes also need to be made to the layout engine: character re-ordering, BIDI implementation, glyph shaping, etc.
On top of that, (many?) modern PDF viewers support BIDI while older ones usually don't. Which means, if FOP does BIDI for PDF output itself in order to guarantee proper rendering, each character has to be individually positioned, which bloats the file and could break search and maybe copy&paste too. Or could we simply ignore PDF viewers incapable of rendering r-l text properly? J.Pietschmann
