Re: PDFBox and word forming for certain languages

2016-05-22 Thread John Hewson
> On 22 May 2016, at 15:14, John Hewson wrote: > > >> On 18 May 2016, at 09:55, Maruan Sahyoun wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> longer term I'd like to support word forming for languages such as Arabic >> for form filling and annotations. >> >> For that I'd like to understand if we already have acce

Re: PDFBox and word forming for certain languages

2016-05-22 Thread John Hewson
> On 18 May 2016, at 09:55, Maruan Sahyoun wrote: > > Hi, > > longer term I'd like to support word forming for languages such as Arabic for > form filling and annotations. > > For that I'd like to understand if we already have access to the GSUB table > in OpenType fonts and discuss where th

PDFBox and word forming for certain languages

2016-05-18 Thread Maruan Sahyoun
Hi, longer term I'd like to support word forming for languages such as Arabic for form filling and annotations. For that I'd like to understand if we already have access to the GSUB table in OpenType fonts and discuss where the forming would best fit - font.encode() - showText() - specific pri