If you went to the web site http://people.apache.org/~spepping/ very rapidly after I sent this email, you may have read obsolete 'Notes about the current state of the work'. Many limitations that were listed there have now been removed, since those limitations have been addressed in the course of development over the past year.
Best, Simon Pepping On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:51:20PM +0200, Simon Pepping wrote: > I am pleased to let you know that Glenn Adams updated his work with a > new patch. This patch includes the following: > > * bug fixes > * new layout engine tests for right-to-left writing mode > * new test utility for using TTX files in testing advanced typographic tables > * new test cases for GDEF/GSUB/GPOS advanced typographic tables > * new test cases for ~85000 arabic word forms against four fonts > * new implementation of number formatter for number to string conversion, > which adds support for arabic, hebrew, thai, and kana scripts > > See milestone "Patch 5" at http://skynav.trac.cvsdude.com/fop/report/6 for > further details. > > The update has been imported into FOP's code in the > Temp_ComplexScripts branch. The new code is available at the URLs > cited below. > > With this patch, Complex Script Support for FOP now supports > * Arabic, Hebrew, and Devanagari Scripts > * PDF output format > > Support for > * additional scripts > * additional output formats > remains to be done. > > The current state of complex scripts support has been proposed for > merger into the main development trunk, subject to appropriate > evaluation and verification by the FOP community. > > You can download the binary distribution or the fop jar file from > http://people.apache.org/~spepping/. > > You can check out the source code from FOP's subversion repository, > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/fop/branches/Temp_ComplexScripts. > > You can follow the work at FOP's Bugzilla, bug nr. 49687, > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49687. > > Simon Pepping > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
