As you discovered, you will need to provide your own Arabic shaper (and glyph selection module).
Leonard On 6/4/14, 8:57 AM, "Drupal" <dru...@readytext.co.uk> wrote: >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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
