Thanks so much for the help. The issue was due to my attempt to use ArialUnicodeMS as the font.
-Ray On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Glenn Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > You do not need to specify the script property, unless the automatic > algorithm doesn't select the desired script. This latter would only be the > case if you are using an older font that supports only the pre-2005 > OpenType Devanagari rendering rules ('deva'). The current automatic > algorithm maps to 'dev2', which matches the current OpenType font spec. > > > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Raymond Budd <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a question about Devanagari support. Please excuse my limited >> background with the script. >> >> The site shows that join controls are not supported: >> https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/complexscripts.html, and I want >> to make sure the behavior I see is as expected. A basic example of this is >> with: में >> >> On command line PDF generation with the example FO file below, this >> generates two separate characters instead of the single character above (I >> can provide the config, FO, and generated PDF files if it helps). I get the >> same result when running with script set to 'dev2' or 'deva'. >> >> If this is currently not supported, does anyone have an idea of when this >> support would be available, if there's a workaround, or suggestion for >> improving the results? >> >> Also, I'm not sure I understand the distinction between the standard and >> extended script codes. Is there a pointer to somewhere I can find out more >> about the difference? >> >> Thanks in advance for any help, >> Ray >> >> ------------------------------------------------ >> sample FO file: >> ------------------------------------------------ >> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> >> <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; >> font-family="Arial"> >> <fo:layout-master-set> >> <fo:simple-page-master margin-top="36pt" margin-bottom="36pt" >> margin-left="54pt" margin-right="54pt" page-width="8.5in" >> page-height="11in" master-name="normal"> >> <fo:region-body margin-bottom="36pt" margin-top="36pt" /> >> </fo:simple-page-master> >> </fo:layout-master-set> >> <fo:page-sequence id="DocumentBody" master-reference="normal"> >> <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"> >> <fo:block line-height="125%" color="black" text-align="start" >> script="deva" font-family="ArialUnicodeMS" font-size="14pt"> >> में >> </fo:block> >> </fo:flow> >> </fo:page-sequence> >> </fo:root> >> >> >> >
