> On 22 May 2016, at 15:14, John Hewson <j...@jahewson.com> wrote: > > >> On 18 May 2016, at 09:55, Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> longer term I'd like to support word forming for languages such as Arabic >> for form filling and annotations. >> >> For that I'd like to understand if we already have access to the GSUB table >> in OpenType fonts and discuss where the forming would best fit
Oh, I should add that we don’t parse the GSUB table currently. It’s quite a complex table, too. Again, FOP has code to do this. Note that fonts embedded in PDFs likely have this table stripped. — John >> - font.encode() >> - showText() >> - specific prior to these > > showText() is a good choice, you could keep the existing behaviour as > showUnshapedText(). What you’re > wanting to implement is “shaping”, which maps Unicode characters => glyph > indexes + position deltas. > AWT represents the shaped glyphs as a GlyphVector, you might want to take > inspiration from that API. > > — John > >> There is already some code at Apache FOP [1] where we could potentially work >> with the colleagues. >> >> BR >> Maruan >> >> >> [1] >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/fop-core/src/main/java/org/apache/fop/complexscripts/ >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
