My immediate need is generating PDF with Gujarati text and have a reasonably large dataset in Gujarati to test such a functionality. I would be more than happy to participate in the testing process when that support is ready. I'm assuming that you have Gujarati experts participate in the planning and development process when that starts. Here also, if you need any help, let me know.
Dilip Simon Pepping @ Home wrote: > > Support for Indian scripts is being developed. See the overview at > http://people.apache.org/~spepping/. You could help by testing this > work. > > At this moment support for Indian scripts is limited to devanagari. > Gujarati is in the planning. > > Simon Pepping > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 02:32:10PM -0700, dilipvshah wrote: >> >> I wish to use XSL-FO technology to generate PDF documents in Indian >> languages. >> >> Here are the steps I took: >> 1) I downloaded fop-1.0 and tried their first example to display a name. >> I >> tried to display name in one of the Indian languages, Gujarati. >> 2) I modified the fop configuration file to load Arial Unicode MS >> 3) The example application does produce PDF document with Gujarati fonts >> but >> the text is displayed as a sequence of individual characters and doesn't >> use >> ligature to display the text correctly. The font glyphs are displayed in >> the >> ordered they are entered in Google's transliterate tool but since >> ligature >> rules are not applied, the name is displayed incorrectly. >> Does FOP have ligature rules for Indian languages? If so, how do I apply >> them when generating a PDF document. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/How-To-Implement-Ligature-For-Indian-Languages-In-Pdf-Documents--tp32677144p32683156.html Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
