I use cocoon as framework and cocoon use FOP to
produce pdf output so I need a way to make fop to
create arabic pdf
????
--- Victor Mote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> nafise hassani wrote:
> 
> > Anybody knows how to Create PDF with Arabic words?
> > 
> > Seems FOP-0.20.5(cocoon use it in its pdf
> serializer) cannot 
> > handle Arabic glyphs/ligature properly. It can
> only display 
> > the Arabic characters but the rules to ligate them
> together 
> > cannot be displayed.
> > also it show chars from left to right but  arabic
> is a right 
> > to left language 
> 
> AFAIK, none of the open-source FO implementations
> handle either the bidi
> issue or the ligature issue correctly. To handle the
> ligatures properly
> requires (I think) the use of the OpenType GPOS
> tables. The commercial
> implementations are your best bet right now. I think
> that RenderX handles
> the bidi issue, but not the ligature issue
> correctly. I don't know about
> Antenna House, but you might check with them as
> well:
>
http://xml.apache.org/fop/resources.html#products-other
> 
> Victor Mote
> 
> 
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> For additional commands, e-mail:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 



                
__________________________________ 
Do you Yahoo!? 
Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. 
http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to