Rajat, Bengali is not yet supported, but is on the list to be supported. At present, only Devanagari is supported. Please see the following links for up to date information on this work:
- http://skynav.trac.cvsdude.com/fop/wiki/ComplexScripts - http://github.com/skynavga/fop Support for Bengali is being tracked at http://skynav.trac.cvsdude.com/fop/ticket/51. Regards, Glenn Adams On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Rajat Narain <[email protected]>wrote: > I have just downloaded the latest binary dt. 15.06.2011 and performed a > small test for indic fonts, namely Bengali and find that there has been no > change from the fop 1.0 stable build. > > I enclose a samle pdf to explain my finding. > > Indic fonts require combination of 2 or more characters to produce the > complex character. In the stable build as well as this, this combination is > not occurring and the characters are printed as individual entities. > > I am not sure if this additional information will be of any help, but as a > flash developer I face a similar problem in flash whenever I try to embed > the font. The problem in flash does not occur if I use the system device > fonts. > > The TTF font I am testing with is called 'Shonar Bangla'. I tried to test > if the font would show correctly without embedding by referencing the font > in the configuration file as > <fonts> > <referenced-fonts> > <match font-family="Shonar Bangla"/> > </referenced-fonts> > </fonts> > > However, this somehow is failing with a message > > Warning: Font "Shonar Bangla, normal, 400" not found. Substituting with > "any,normal,400" > > and then it tries to find the glyphs using Times-Roman > > The text in the pdf should have looked like this. > > প্রথম পাতা| দিব্যি ঘুমাচ্ছিলাম আমি আর ইচ্ছামতী। > > Thank you, > > Kind Regards > Rajat Narain > India > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
