Good stuff. I have looked into OpenType some more. Early on I tried using the Arabic Transparent with ImageMagick and it did not work. TrueType Explorer (a free font viewer) indicates that it is an OpenType font and other web sites indicate that it has the tables to support Arabic. ImageMagick uses Freetype 2, I believe.
Anyways, since this is now getting off topic, I will go over to the Imagemagick forum and see if anyone knows why its not working. Thanks all. Chris "Chris Whiting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Is the bidirectional algorithm as noted in > http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr9/ > implemented and embedded in Perl 5.8 Unicode support? If so, is there a way > to convert the internal string to the visual display. > > I know that there is some free software at: > http://fribidi.sourceforge.net/ > > I also examined Lingua::IW::Logical but it seems to be based on an old > algorithm. > > I have implemented the Bidi algorithm, and an Arabic shaping algorithm in > Perl and was wondering if it would be useful to upload it to cpan. > > thx, > > Chris > > PS > you can email me at chris at riverslime onedot com > >
