Again, sorry for the slow reply. Thank you for the tip on the binding direction. How
do I actually set that in PDF documents?
Youssef Eldakar
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
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From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 8/26/2004 5:58 PM
To: Youssef Eldakar; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Arabic Text in PDF
At 08:06 AM 8/26/2004, Youssef Eldakar wrote:
>I did a bit of lab work on the handling of Arabic text in PDF, and I
>thought I would share it with the iText mailing list. I used a Java
>program based on iText to generate the PDF I used in this survey. I am
>attaching the source code (arabic_text_in_pdf.java), the generated PDF
>(arabic_text_in_pdf.pdf), and the report I wrote
>(arabic_text_in_pdf.Report.pdf).
>
Great information!!
One thing worth noting is that if you look at Adobe's history of
product localizatioin & internationalization, they have already dealt with
CJK (Acro3/4), and CE (Central Europe) in Acro6, leaving only the ME market
to be handled by a 3rd party and not integrated with the main product line.
It would seem that perhaps the time has come for ME support in the
mainstream app...
On a related note, although not currently used by Acrobat, I would
recommend that you set the binding direction of the PDF to RTL on any
document where the primary language direction is RTL...
Leonard
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