I think that the internal representation is visual, otherwise it would require negative char advances for all RTL languages, but the clipboard cut of the text would come in logical order.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Leonard Rosenthol > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:45 AM > To: Youssef Eldakar; itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Adobe Reader v6, v7, and Arabic Text > > At 02:11 AM 5/18/2005, Youssef Eldakar wrote: > >By logical as opposed to visual order, do you mean the order > in which the > >characters would be pronounced, > > Correct. That is called logical order. > > > >or do you mean the order in which they are painted to the > output device > >according to a left-handed coordinate space? > > No, that is called visual order. > > > >"Youssef" in Arabic is spelled ya-waw-sin-fa, but it must be > written as > >fa-sin-waw-ya in a PDF file in order to work properly in > Acrobat 6 ME and > >Acrobat 7. > > Are you sure? It should be the other way around. > Acro6ME & 7 > should now be using logical order, not visual. And you are > describing the > reverse. > > > Leonard > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > Leonard Rosenthol > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Chief Technical Officer <http://www.pdfsages.com> > PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) > 215-938-0880 (fax) > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes > Want to be the first software developer in space? > Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt12&alloc_id344&op=click _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
