https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17766
Volker Haas <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #10 from Volker Haas <[email protected]> 2011-08-03 08:09:57 UTC --- The problem is not that PediaPress is not interested in fixing this. The problem is that the framework we are using to generate PDFs does not support right-to-left languages properly (reportlab). I have been in discussion with the developers and some Israelis (for QA mainly) and we have made slow progress. Now it looks as if all major issues have been ironed out and that the PDF export is ready for hebrew at least. Check the sample the I rendered ~2 days ago [1] - beware that all contents are random since I do not speak or read hebrew. So far I have some feedback from hebrew speaking persons who think that the quality is good and PDF export is ready for production use for hebrew. As a matter of fact we have contacted the WMF a week ago and informed them that we think the PDF export is now ready to go live in the hebrew wikipedia and scheduled to activate the Collection extension in the hebrew wikipedia later today. Please keep in mind that the PDF export is open source software and everybody can contribute. I have spend a substantial amount of time already to improve rtl support, but as someone who does neither speak or ready any of these languages I make progress slowly. Please contribute! * http://code.pediapress.com/git/mwlib.rl (rtl_support branch) * http://code.pediapress.com/git/?p=mwlib.ext/.git (rtl_support branch) My last tests indicated that for arabic there are still some problems. If anybody is willing to contribute I'd be happy to accept patches. [1] http://pediapress.com/files/he/sample_1.pdf -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
