On 10/21/2010 4:20 PM, Ian Walberg wrote:
Steve,
Many thanks for you help, we had an old version of fribidi and building
0.19.2 fixed the character join issue.
We do appear to have a couple of labels with square boxes (invalid chat
I assume) at the end but I need to check the source data as well.
This means the the font is missing that particular joining character. I
would be interested in knowing if there is a good font that the fribidi
team recommends if you contact them or if you find one that is complete.
I have clients, that have licensed fonts that are more complete, by
still had to go in add a few additional glyphs. I do not remember what
font they got or where they got it from.
-Steve W
Regards
Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Woodbridge [mailto:wood...@swoodbridge.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 9:51 AM
To: Ian Walberg
Cc: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Arabic text rendering
The key is to make sure you are using fribidi-0.19.2.tar.gz I do not use
fgs, so I'm not sure what they are using. I have downloaded the source
and compiled and in stalled it under /usr/local/. Make sure you do NOT
have the system package for fribidi installed as that is the old one
that does not support the joining.
Did you copy the font file you used for ms4w to linux to make sure you
are using the same file?
-Steve W
On 10/21/2010 11:04 AM, Ian Walberg wrote:
Steve,
Thanks for the reply.
We have a working setup on Window using ms4w and used the same map,
shape and fonts files on the Linux setup which is an fgs install but
this shows the characters broken.
Is anyone out using a working linux installation which correctly joins
Arabic characters?
Thanks
Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Stephen
Woodbridge
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 6:20 AM
To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Arabic text rendering
Ian,
You have to get a truetype font that supports arabic and has all the
chaining glyphs in it. Microsoft has an arial font that is about 24MB
file size that is pretty good, not that I'm suggesting you violate
their
EUA. There are also some commercial fonts that you can buy that do the
job pretty well.
You might ask for font suggestions on fribidi software list.
As far as installation, all you need to do for maperver is copy the
font
to a directory that your webserver can access, can create fontlist.txt
that points to that font. Then you can referrence the file via the
alias
you gave it in the fontlist.txt file. See the documentation for how to
do this.
-Steve W
On 10/20/2010 10:08 AM, Ian Walberg wrote:
Does anyone have any experience with Arabic text on a Linux
installation?
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Ian
Walberg
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 2:10 PM
To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapserver-users] Arabic text rendering
On Linux we are Arabic words rendered as individual characters and on
Windows the characters are joined correctly.
Same map file, shapefile and font on each.
We have tried both the mapserver and libs we have built from source
and
the fgs binary install on Linux and both render individual
characters.
Can anyone point me to what lib or config I need to change?
Thanks
Ian
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