Thanks for checking. I just ran the same data with Arial Unicode MS (see
attached). There appears to be some issues on matra positioning. I'll look
into this.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Dilip Shah <[email protected]> wrote:

> **
> Hi Glen,
>
> Language / ligatures are perfect in the PDF document. This is very
> encouraging, especially because the words in the document are quite complex.
>
> I know that many users of my application use Arial Unicode MS on Windows
> and so that would be a good font family to test.
>
>  I'm thrilled to see it take shape! I'll be happy to review other
> documents you generate and once the code is stable, would be happy to test
> it out.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dilip
>
>
>  *From:* Glenn Adams <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 30, 2011 10:57 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Cc:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Gujarati Support [Was: How To Implement Ligature For Indian
> Languages In Pdf Documents?]
>
> Hi Dilip,
>
> Attached is a test FO file and resulting PDF I just generated with
> Gujarati support enabled. Could you take a quick look to verify. I used an
> excerpt from [1] as a sample.
>
> I currently have only the Shruti (regular and bold) fonts from Windows 7
> to test against. Do you have other Gujarati OpenType (1.5 or later) fonts
> you would like me to verify?
>
> [1] http://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/મુખપૃષ્ઠ
>
> Regards,
> Glenn
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Glenn Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> yes; i started work on this (Gujarati) a few days ago
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:24 AM, dilipvshah <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Are we still shooting for the end of the year release?
>>>
>>> Dilip
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>> > Thanks!
>>> >
>>>
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