> -----Original Message-----
> From: RKVS Raman [mailto:rkvsra...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:50 AM
> To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Why something like
> ArabicLigaturizer will not work for Indian Scripts like Hindi
> , Tamil and Others.
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Paulo Soares
> <psoa...@glintt.com> wrote:
> > I suspect that instead of havind an Hindi ligatutizer it
> would make more sense to use the OTF tables in the font. This
> way, any ligatures in any languages would work as long as the
> font supported them. It's an interesting project but not
> really a trivial one.
> >
> > Paulo
>
> I agree with you. iText needs an OTF interpreter. It will open out
> usage of iText to the rest of the languages in an unprecedented
> manner. Even if the iText Code support insertion of glyph codes from a
> font as an alternate method, things will work cos you can then use api
> to get the glyph list for a particular string.
>
> Any way of enabling that any sooner?
>
It won't happen unless someone pays for it or contributes the code. This is
very complex stuff that can't be done is an weekend.
Paulo
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