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Note that besides the shaping of arabic characters you'll also have to take care of bidirectionality, although if you support hebrew you have that already. For info on the ligatures and rules you have www.unicode.org. If you want a ready made shaper there 's ICU from IBM but it doesn't support Farsi ligatures and Pango. I used Pango in iText and it works very well (even does double ligatures), at least according to arabic speaking guys, I don't know a word of arabic. Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Persits [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 21:17 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PDFdev] Arabic woes > > Hi all, > > A PDF-generating product I am working on provides Unicode support and > displays Russian, Hebrew and even Chinese characters just fine. But with > Arabic alphabet, I hit a brick wall. > > Apparently in Arabic, a character's glyphs vary according to its relative > position to other characters, to provide a nice "bridge" between letters. > On > the attached image, the same two characters look different when conjoined > (above) and stand-alone (below). > > I was wondering if someone (Arabic-speaking, perhaps) could point me in a > direction where I can find some information on this matter. > > Thanks! > > Peter << File: arabic.gif >> To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html
