On 06/08/2011 09:18 AM, macbook17 wrote: > Dear All > > I have downloaded Scribus twice and installed in my MacBook Pro. It is a > wonderful DTP software. It supports many languages, but not Urdu which is > written in Arabic script. Mac OS X has excellent support for Urdu, and they > have announced to make it even better in OS X Lion. Many word processors work > wonderfully fro Urdu on the mac. Scrivener, Mellel and Nisus Express have > total support of Urdu, of course not to speak of the free Bean, TextEdit and > iTextExpress etc. But none is suitable for DTP, as Scribus is. > > I wonder so small apps have total Urdu support, but the heavy-weight Scribus > does not have this luxury for us. Could anyone do the good turn to a whole > continent by adding full Unicode Urdu support in Scribus? This will > revolutionize Urdu DTP in South Asia. >
This is being worked on, but is a big project because of the need for precise placement of the various glyphs, and complicated by the various changes that happen depending on a glyph's neighbors. This is definitely something we are strongly interested in. Greg
