[FOP-2996] Arabic letters are not joined in generated PDF whatever I can try

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 2.5, 2.6
• Component/s: fo/unqualified
• Environment: Any OS; any version of Java. However attached PDFs having been generated on Linux running 1.8.0_281.
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Hussein Shafie
• Created: 24/Jan/21 11:19
• Updated: 16/Jun/22 11:17
• Resolved: 16/Jun/22 11:17

Description

Arabic letters are not joined whatever in generated PDF I can try: specify language="ar", specify language="arab", specify writing-mode="rl-tb", use one of the fonts you officially support (with the corresponding configuration file).

Sample Arabic file is: sample2_ar.fo

Expected output is: sample2_ar_XEP.pdf

Generating PDF using FOP v2.6 with font "Arial Unicode MS":

 

$ /opt/fop-2.6/fop/fop -c ./fop_arialuni.conf -fo sample2_ar.fo -pdf sample2_ar_FOP_arialuni.pdf

 

Generating PDF using FOP v2.6 with font "Scheherazade New":

 

$ /opt/fop-2.6/fop/fop -c ./fop_scheherazade.conf -fo sample2_ar.fo -pdf sample2_ar_FOP_scheherazade.pdf

 

Generating PDF using FOP v2.6 with font "Traditional Arabic":

 

$ /opt/fop-2.6/fop/fop -c ./fop_trado.conf -fo sample2_ar.fo -pdf sample2_ar_FOP_trado.pdf