AW: [PDFdev] pdf in hebrew

[Jens Boschulte]

Hi,   If or if no Hebrew words can be found depends on the way how the font is embedded in the document. A word can be found if the reading order of the document is set to right to left and if the text is stored in Unicode, or if a code page with an encoding is used, but the font must not be converted to a symbolic font.   There are many applications which convert a font to a symbolic font, if only a subset of the font is stored in the PDF file.   In addition, the reading order and the optional language tag is mostly not set (since Acrobat 5 the main language can be stored in a PDF file).   When mixed text is used, such as English and Hebrew, the document must contain market content sequences which tell Acrobat what language is currently used.   This is not really complex but you need to understand many different techniques to support multi-language PDF files in this depth.   Regards   Jens   ----- Original Message-----   Printing the glyphs is not a problem for me. The real problem is to print hebrew words keeping their "logic". Any user should be able to search and find a word within a pdf file, otherwise I do not see the advantage of pdf!  How does hebrew (or arabic) people write a searchable pdf?   Xavier -----Original Message----- From: Jens Boschulte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: mercredi 10 d�cembre 2003 13:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: [PDFdev] pdf in hebrew Hallo Xavier,   Of course, a PDF file supports any language of the world. But that means not, that a PDF viewer does directly support a language such as Hebrew, Arabic or what ever.   If you want to create such PDF files, you must implement a bidi-algorithm and your application must implement Hebrew code pages or Unicode.   In both cases, it is not easy to create Hebrew PDF files.   Greetings   Jens Boschulte www.dynaforms.com   -----Original Message----- Hello,   Is it possible to write an hebrew text in a pdf? Moreover, is is possible to mix hebrew and english? Is there a "bidirectionality algorithm" as there is in html or rtf formats?   thanks   Xavier