i expect to return from holiday tomorrow, and will take this work up again, so stay tuned... i haven't forgotten
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Dilip Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > Hi Glen, > > Any update on FOP release date with Gujarati font support? > > Thanks, > > Dilip > > *From:* Glenn Adams <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 30, 2011 12:35 PM > *To:* Dilip Shah <[email protected]> > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Gujarati Support [Was: How To Implement Ligature For > Indian Languages In Pdf Documents?] > > 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! >>>> > >>>> >>>> -- >>>> View this message in context: >>>> http://old.nabble.com/How-To-Implement-Ligature-For-Indian-Languages-In-Pdf-Documents--tp32677144p32884784.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] >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
