Hi Santosh, In some other thread of this mailing list i found that TCPDF(www.tcpdf.org/) have a good support for the unicode, but i just downloaded the code and tried it. I found that it also have some issues on for the Bengali/indic texts. Have you tried with this library?
I will apply for the GSoC on this project and before staring on a specific tool i would like to study the other existing tools. Because though they do not have to full support for the languages but they are good at some points, like Render can render the texts properly and existing pdf tool works well with the collection extension. thanks nasir On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Volker Haas <volker.h...@brainbot.com>wrote: > Hi all. > > I just wanted to confirm that Santosh's description of the current > limitations of the PDF rendering engine are accurate. > > Regarding the GSOC project: As the principal developer of the current PDF > rendering I'd also be happy to share insights on PDF rendering. Let me know > if I can do anything to help. > > Best Regards, > Volker > > Am 04.03.2012 07:30, schrieb Sumana Harihareswara: > > On 03/03/2012 10:25 PM, Santhosh Thottingal wrote: >> >>> Here i have a question that at this moment is there any developer of >>>> developer group is working on this issue? if yes then i want to join >>>> with >>>> him. >>>> >>> I had discussed this with Pediapress developers in the past. I >>> started a project many months back to develop a general purpose PDF >>> rendering library for complex scripts and I had announced it here: >>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/**pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/** >>> 2011-February/002198.html<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-February/002198.html> >>> And I have an online version based on the code in development >>> http://silpa.org.in/Render. It can create PDFs from Bengali wiki pages >>> and possibly most of the scripts that we support. The text rendering >>> engine used is Pango. This is my petproject and 2-3 people joined me, >>> but recently it is inactive in development since we are not getting >>> free time. The library require lot of work to reach a reasonably >>> usable state. Then it require good amount of effort to integrate with >>> collection extension. >>> >>> The project is hosted at >>> https://savannah.nongnu.org/**projects/pypdflib<https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib> >>> and available in Debian. >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> Santhosh >>> >> Santhosh, it looks like Nasir might be interested in working on this as >> a Google Summer of Code project: >> >> ... Is [it] possible to apply GSoC for this issue. >>> >> If this is the case, Santhosh, would you be interested in possibly >> mentoring Nasir? >> >> > > -- > Volker Haas > Senior Developer > brainbot technologies ag > Boppstraße 64 > 55118 Mainz > Phone: +49 (0)6131 2116394 > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> > -- *Nasir Khan Saikat <http://profiles.google.com/nasir8891>* _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
