Are you on 1.5 yet? 1.5 has bidi support, doesn't it? Peter
On 08/01/2010, at 8:48 AM, J.Pietschmann wrote: > On 07.01.2010 12:28, Vincent Hennebert wrote: >> And this is only half of the story. Changes also need to be made to the >> layout engine: character re-ordering, BIDI implementation, glyph >> shaping, etc. > > On top of that, (many?) modern PDF viewers support BIDI while > older ones usually don't. Which means, if FOP does BIDI for PDF > output itself in order to guarantee proper rendering, each > character has to be individually positioned, which bloats the > file and could break search and maybe copy&paste too. > Or could we simply ignore PDF viewers incapable of rendering > r-l text properly? > > J.Pietschmann
