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FOP Arabic Support

Hello

I'm using fop version 0.95, and I'm facing a "common" problem which is the arabic support in fop; when writing Arabic characters, it has been rendered as # characters, 

Can anybody help me with this issue ?

thanks a lot



Regards, 
Mohammed

Re: FOP Arabic Support

Posted by Andreas Delmelle <an...@telenet.be>.
On 09 Aug 2009, at 15:46, Geert Bormans wrote:

Hi Mohammed, Geert,

Just FYI: even when using the correct font, note that FOP currently  
still has some rather severe issues with right-to-left scripts. Even  
when specifying the correct writing-mode, FOP will render the  
characters 'mirrored', and with Arabic, there is also a lack of  
support for inner-word ligatures/glyph-merging...

Just mentioning this, so there are no surprises...


Regards,

Andreas Delmelle
mailto:andreas.delmelle.AT.telenet.be
jabber: mandreas@jabber.org
skype: adlm0608

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Re: FOP Arabic Support

Posted by Mohammed Farouk <hi...@yahoo.com>.
Hi Geert, 

Thanks a lot for your reply, but I have tried your suggested solution, and it didn't work with me, Maybe I have missed some points, if you can specify the solution in more detail, I will be very grateful to you

thanks a lot

Regards,
Mohammed 



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From: Geert Bormans <ge...@gbormans.telenet.be>
To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org
Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2009 3:46:27 PM
Subject: Re: FOP Arabic Support

You must make sure that you use a font that "knows" how to render 
Arabic characters

maybe those are sufficient
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=arabicfonts

After that you need to set the font-family like this

font-family="MyArabicFont">

(MyArabicFont should be the font you want to use)

then you need to list that font in the FOP config file
fop.xconf

       <fonts>
         <font kerning="yes" embed-url="file:///f:/font.ttf">
            <font-triplet name="MyArabicFont" style="normal" weight="400" />
         </font>
@embed-url takes the full path to the font file, likely a .ttf

make sure that you reference the configuration file correctly with "-c"

good luck

Geert




At 11:00 9/08/2009, you wrote:
>Hello
>
>I'm using fop version 0.95, and I'm facing a "common" problem which 
>is the arabic support in fop; when writing Arabic characters, it has 
>been rendered as # characters,
>
>Can anybody help me with this issue ?
>
>thanks a lot
>
>
>Regards,
>Mohammed
>


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Re: FOP Arabic Support

Posted by Geert Bormans <ge...@gbormans.telenet.be>.
You must make sure that you use a font that "knows" how to render 
Arabic characters

maybe those are sufficient
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=arabicfonts

After that you need to set the font-family like this
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" 
font-family="MyArabicFont">

(MyArabicFont should be the font you want to use)

then you need to list that font in the FOP config file
fop.xconf

       <fonts>
         <font kerning="yes" embed-url="file:///f:/font.ttf">
            <font-triplet name="MyArabicFont" style="normal" weight="400" />
         </font>
@embed-url takes the full path to the font file, likely a .ttf

make sure that you reference the configuration file correctly with "-c"

good luck

Geert




At 11:00 9/08/2009, you wrote:
>Hello
>
>I'm using fop version 0.95, and I'm facing a "common" problem which 
>is the arabic support in fop; when writing Arabic characters, it has 
>been rendered as # characters,
>
>Can anybody help me with this issue ?
>
>thanks a lot
>
>
>Regards,
>Mohammed
>


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