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Re: How To Implement Ligature For Indian Languages In Pdf
Documents?
Are we still shooting for the end of the year release?
Dilip
dilipvshah wrote:
>
> I wish to use XSL-FO technology to generate PDF documents in Indian
> languages.
>
> Here are the steps I took:
> 1) I downloaded fop-1.0 and tried their first example to display a name. I
> tried to display name in one of the Indian languages, Gujarati.
> 2) I modified the fop configuration file to load Arial Unicode MS
> 3) The example application does produce PDF document with Gujarati fonts
> but the text is displayed as a sequence of individual characters and
> doesn't use ligature to display the text correctly. The font glyphs are
> displayed in the ordered they are entered in Google's transliterate tool
> but since ligature rules are not applied, the name is displayed
> incorrectly.
> Does FOP have ligature rules for Indian languages? If so, how do I apply
> them when generating a PDF document.
> Thanks!
>
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Re: How To Implement Ligature For Indian Languages In Pdf Documents?
Posted by Glenn Adams <gl...@skynav.com>.
yes; i started work on this (Gujarati) a few days ago
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:24 AM, dilipvshah <di...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Are we still shooting for the end of the year release?
>
> Dilip
>
>
> dilipvshah wrote:
> >
> > I wish to use XSL-FO technology to generate PDF documents in Indian
> > languages.
> >
> > Here are the steps I took:
> > 1) I downloaded fop-1.0 and tried their first example to display a name.
> I
> > tried to display name in one of the Indian languages, Gujarati.
> > 2) I modified the fop configuration file to load Arial Unicode MS
> > 3) The example application does produce PDF document with Gujarati fonts
> > but the text is displayed as a sequence of individual characters and
> > doesn't use ligature to display the text correctly. The font glyphs are
> > displayed in the ordered they are entered in Google's transliterate tool
> > but since ligature rules are not applied, the name is displayed
> > incorrectly.
> > Does FOP have ligature rules for Indian languages? If so, how do I apply
> > them when generating a PDF document.
> > Thanks!
> >
>
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