On Wednesday 07 March 2007 21:12, Rico Secada wrote: > Hi > > I have been working real hard at a documentation project at work in > which I needed to add some arabic text. The whole project was > converted from OpenOffice to Docbook, and all went well. Next was > converting from docbook to various formats, which all went well > except when it came to FOP. > > Various tutorials on the net supply some, not to good, explanations > about how to add arabic fonts, and other fonts to FOP. > > After wasting a LOT of time, the project are proberly going to be > converted back to OpenOffice due to the lack of prober support for > other fonts in FOP. > > Now wouldn't it be a good idea to include support for other fonts by > standard in FOP? > What do you mean by 'other fonts'? FOP supports basically any TrueType font and quite a few other font formats. Many users use FOP successfully with other fonts than the FOP built-in Adobe Base14 fonts.
I am suspicious what you mean is not support for fonts but support for writing modes (left-to-right vs right-to-left), glyph merging, Unicode BIDI, ligatures, etc.., that is support for non western writing systems. And yes I agree that FOP is lacking most of those features. However, that is documented, see the FOP compliance page, and any help in improving FOP in this area is most welcome. If you look through the fop-dev and fop-user archives you will find a number of conversations on these matters and a number of users who indicated they had started some development in this area. However, we, that is the current FOP development team, have never seen any successful outputs from those attempts. May be this indicates that implementing support for mixed writing modes and Unicode BIDI is more complex than those people intially thought? Cheers Manuel > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]