---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Santhosh Thottingal <[email protected]> Date: 2010/10/2 Subject: [smc-discuss] Project: PyPDFLib To: Discussion list of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing <[email protected]>
Friends, We all know that there is no PDF library which can support Indic scripts. We ourself have seen many requests for this in various mailing lists. The workaround available is to generate ODT file and then doing export. In case of python the default pdf library is reportlab which does not support any complex scripts. Wikipedia's page export feature is broken for complex script languages because of these limitations. We are starting a project to address this problem. The project is named as PyPDFLib and hosted here : http://github.com/santhoshtr/pypdflib The project uses Pango for complex script rendering and Cairo for PDF and graphics manipulations. Project is in Python and licensed under LGPLv3+ The current status : * Basic set of APIs in working condition. Widgets such as paragraph, header, footer, line, h1,h2 etc., image(not all formats) are available now. * Basic configurations like Font, size, alignment etc * Sample program with Kannada, Hindi, Malayalam, and Bengali texts. * Another sample program which converts a wikipedia article to PDF - tested with Indic languages, English etc Project is in initial stage, so expect many bugs. But if interested play with the apis , report bugs, give patches.. Thanks Santhosh Thottingal _______________________________________________ Swathanthra Malayalam Computing discuss Mailing List Project: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/smc Web: http://smc.org.in | IRC : #smc-project @ freenode [email protected] http://lists.smc.org.in/listinfo.cgi/discuss-smc.org.in -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization is moving to the mainstream and overtaking non-virtualized environment for deploying applications. Does it make network security easier or more difficult to achieve? Read this whitepaper to separate the two and get a better understanding. http://p.sf.net/sfu/hp-phase2-d2d _______________________________________________ IndLinux-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-group
