Dear All Firstly, my sincere thanks to the team behind PoDoFo for making this software freely available.
Just to summarize my setup, I've just compiled PoDoFo 0.9.2 on Windows 7 64 bit (using Visual Studio 2008...!) with the following libraries Boost 1.55 libjpeg 8d openssl 1.01g libtiff 4.0.3 libzlib 1.2.8 FreeType 2.5.3 So far, most of the PoDoF test applications build/work fine --- apart from FilterTest where I get 3 failures (I've yet to find out why). Anyway that's a different issue for now. What I'm really interested to explore is using PoDoFo for outputting typeset Arabic --- via the superb Harfbuzz OpenType shaping engine. I have Harfbuzz working well and can generate shaped Arabic text. The output of Harfbuzz (and FreeType) is a set of glyphs IDs together with full positioning and glyph/metric data. With Arabic, many of the glyphs may not have a corresponding Unicode character value --- i.e., they are "visual forms" and not encoded in Unicode. I use OpenType fonts exclusively. So, I guess my question is: Can PoDoFo take a set of glyph IDs and positions/metrics and use that to render Arabic in a PDF with a subset font? I must confess that I'm not at all a strong C++ programmer, I mostly code in C, so any suggestions on where to start with PoDoFo to output Arabic (based on the above) would be very helpful --- or if it is not possible that would be good to know. Best wishes to all and thanks again for PoDoFo. Graham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Podofo-users mailing list Podofo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/podofo-users
