[FOP-959] [PATCH] Arabic Shaping not Supported by FOP

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.5
• Component/s: layout/unqualified
• Environment: Operating System: All; Platform: All
• External issue ID: 32789
• Assignee: fop-dev
• Reporter: Lucy lue
• Created: 21/Dec/04 11:24
• Updated: 18/Dec/12 17:01
• Resolved: 28/Mar/12 06:15

Description

Lack of support for multi-language seems to be happening in FOP.

Arabic is right to left, and there are rules for joining letters.

We did the following steps listed in
http://www.javaranch.com/journal/200409/CreatingMultipleLanguagePDFusingApacheFO
P.html

However, the Arabic words are able to display letter by letter, but the words
are broken. No glyphs to join letter with letter...

Initially we thought it may be the font problem. Then we tried download quite a
number of Arabic fonts, (like tradbdo.ttf, trado.ttf, nesf2.ttf,
Nafees_Naskh.ttf etc.) The font that contains most glyphs are Nafees_Naskh.ttf,
which contains 581 number of glyphs. However, after rendering pdf using FOP,
the words are still broken.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: FOP-1732 Arabic characters are not joined on the generated PDF