There's no need to complicate. iText receives the characters in the Arabic form and transforms it in the presentation form with all the ligatures, reordering, number conversion (if asked too). You must use ColumnText or PdfPTable for that to work and set the direction to RTL. See the example I previously mentioned.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Youssef Eldakar > Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 11:59 AM > To: Ayman Nour El Din; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] language support question > > Yes, if your input is not ligaturized, you need to ligaturize > it. iText has a class called ArabicLigaturizer. Take a look > at its source code. > > Youssef Eldakar > Bibliotheca Alexandrina > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ayman Nour El Din [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wed 9/15/2004 1:41 PM > To: Youssef Eldakar > Cc: > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] language support question > > > > Hello, > I have read your email and tried the example you > provided. And it worked > just fine. > The problem is that the data I want to put inside the > PDF is fetched > from a datasource ( database, property files,...)...and > it just appears > as in plain, not ligaturized. > Any ideas? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: September 15, 2004 11:55 AM > To: Ayman Nour El Din; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] language support question > > If interested in a bit of details, take a look at the > report attached to > this posting: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.lib.itext.general/11270 > > Youssef Eldakar > Bibliotheca Alexandrina > -----Original Message----- > From: Ayman Nour El Din [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wed 9/15/2004 9:24 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: > Subject: [iText-questions] language support question > > > Hello, > I have a question about your iText. > Can you think of any reason why Arabic text is > not showing in > the generated pdf while it is showing in the test Html file? > Please help > > Thank you so much > > Ayman Nour El Din > > > > > NHSXuzÊ > yY×Ü DpÈ5jQj`uê,)zI.z(W{4yrI]M]mh{ëxM*XË~zwÛËq zßX){ë >
