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Jennifer Hodgdon commented on FOP-2728:
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OK. I took the "simple.fo" file from the FOP distribution examples directory,
and modified it slightly, to add the language attribute and rtl, and put in
some sample Farsi text.
When I tried with with font-family="sans-serif" all I got was a bunch of #
characters because the default font doesn't have the characters. So I went back
to FreeFarsi. Still has the same problem of characters being "detatched".
I'll try to figure out how to attach files after I submit this comment...
> Persian (Farsi) output problem with FOP
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Key: FOP-2728
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2728
> Project: FOP
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: renderer/pdf
> Affects Versions: 2.1
> Environment: Ubuntu 16.04 with xmlto 0.0.28
> Reporter: Navid Emami
> Labels: drupal
> Attachments: mkebooks.sh, pdf-farsi.xsl, sample-output-final.zip,
> sample-output.zip
>
>
> We are having trouble making Persian (Farsi) language output with FOP.
> We are using the *xmlto* script with the --with-fop option to convert a
> DocBook file to PDF using FOP, which uses XSLT to first make a FO file, and
> then FOP to convert to PDF. We used the --noclean option to capture the
> intermediate FO XML file.
> We have verified that the Persian (Farsi) characters are readable in the
> DocBook and FO files. However, when we generate the PDF, the output is not
> readable. There are both _joined_ and _separated_ letters in Persian (Farsi)
> language but the output in PDF format has just separated ones.
> Note that there are some font issues in the PDF output as well -- missing
> glyphs -- those show as # characters, and are in the chapter/section
> headings. However, the main body of the text has no # characters, and it
> still has this problem.
> *Attachments:*
> * sample-output.zip contains small.docbook, small.fo, small.epub and
> small.pdf. The final output of PDF should be similar to EPUB.
> * sample-output-full.zip contains guide.epub and guide.pdf which are the
> complete documents but with wrong rendering of characters in PDF.
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