Ah, that explains it. I have updated the font support page at:

https://skynav.trac.cvsdude.com/fop/wiki/SupportedFonts

to reflect this difference. I've also added info on the Lateef and
Scheherazade fonts from SIL, available for free at

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=ArabicFonts_Download

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Simon Pepping <spepp...@leverkruid.eu>wrote:

> Ah, yes, our own TTFReader. Its output says it all. A selection from
> the diff:
>
> >diff simpo.out.txt simpo-GA.out.txt
> 6,8c6,8
> < Reading 15 dir tables
> < dir tables: [loca, post, DSIG, glyf, fpgm, hmtx, hhea, prep, GSUB, cvt ,
> OS/2, cmap, name, head, maxp]
> < flags: 8 - 1000
> ---
> > Reading 21 dir tables
> > dir tables: [loca, post, DSIG, glyf, fpgm, hmtx, GPOS, hhea, prep, GSUB,
> GDEF, hdmx, cvt , gasp, name, OS/2, cmap, VDMX, LTSH, head, maxp]
> > flags: 24 - 11000
> 11c11
> < Number of glyphs in font: 414
> ---
> > Number of glyphs in font: 473
> 14c14
> < Number of horizontal metrics: 414
> ---
> > Number of horizontal metrics: 473
>
> and most importantly:
>
> 31c31
> < 1 0 0 5 Version 5.00
> ---
> > 1 0 0 5 Version 5.92
> 43c43
> < 3 1 1033 5 Version 5.00
> ---
> > 3 1 1033 5 Version 5.92
>
> plus a long listing of tables which are not in version 5.00.
>
> I think you should reflect this version on your Trac site. I see on
> the web that v 5.92 is distributed with Windows 7. I do not have
> that.
>
> Simon
>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 09:13:50AM +0800, Glenn Adams wrote:
> > If you want to see what FOP thinks is in the font, then you can use the
> > TTFReader application with the -d option, e.g.,
> >
> >     <java classname="org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader">
> >
> >
> >       <arg line="-d simpo.ttf simpo.xml"/>
> >
> >
> >       <classpath>
> >
> >
> >         <path refid="libs-build-classpath"/>
> >
> >
> >         <pathelement location="${build.classes.dir}"/>
> >
> >
> >       </classpath>
> >
> >
> >     </java>
> >
> > Which for Simplified Arabic 5.0 produces the output shown in the attached
> > file.
>
> --
> Simon Pepping
> home page: http://www.leverkruid.eu
>

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