On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Raj Mathur <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 10 Apr 2009, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Raj Mathur <[email protected]> > wrote: >> > The characters are all here, because if you select and copy the PDF >> > text (e.g. in Kpdf) and paste it into an editor it displays the >> > complete Urdu text beautifully. >> >> If you use the same font to write something in a standard editor/word >> processor and output it to PDF, does it render b0rked or as_expected? > > Interesting diagnostic! Yes, if I paste the text from the PDF into OOo > writer, convert all to Nafees font and generate a fresh PDF it looks > just fine.
Umm.. I was looking at whether - if you use a new OOo writer document and, with the same font selected input randomly using appropriate layout whether it gets rendered. > Maybe I should get Joomla to just use OOo to generate PDFs from pages > (j/k :) Well, on the face of it, turns out that Joomla seems to be pushing out a PDF that does not seem to render alright. Might be worth poking at the internals to see how Joomla does generate the PDF. And, the original post would be a good puzzle on indlinux list :) -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work Sent from Mumbai, MH, India _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
