On Wednesday 07 March 2007 21:12, Rico Secada wrote:
Hi
I have been working real hard at a documentation project at work in
which I needed to add some arabic text. The whole project was
converted from OpenOffice to Docbook, and all went well. Next was
converting from docbook to various formats, which all went well
except when it came to FOP.
Various tutorials on the net supply some, not to good, explanations
about how to add arabic fonts, and other fonts to FOP.
After wasting a LOT of time, the project are proberly going to be
converted back to OpenOffice due to the lack of prober support for
other fonts in FOP.
Now wouldn't it be a good idea to include support for other fonts by
standard in FOP?
What do you mean by 'other fonts'? FOP supports basically any TrueType
font and quite a few other font formats. Many users use FOP
successfully with other fonts than the FOP built-in Adobe Base14 fonts.
I am suspicious what you mean is not support for fonts but support for
writing modes (left-to-right vs right-to-left), glyph merging, Unicode
BIDI, ligatures, etc.., that is support for non western writing
systems.
And yes I agree that FOP is lacking most of those features. However,
that is documented, see the FOP compliance page, and any help in
improving FOP in this area is most welcome. If you look through the
fop-dev and fop-user archives you will find a number of conversations
on these matters and a number of users who indicated they had started
some development in this area. However, we, that is the current FOP
development team, have never seen any successful outputs from those
attempts. May be this indicates that implementing support for mixed
writing modes and Unicode BIDI is more complex than those people
intially thought?
Cheers
Manuel
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