Embedding Arabic fonts

Post by **haobaba1** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:42 pm

I am creating my first pdf using xsl fo and have the pleasure of also figuring out how ot handle arabic and eastern european fonts at the same time. Could somebody please be kind enough to explain how to embed the fonts into my document so that they don't all come out as #####.

Thanks

Post by **george** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:14 pm

There is an atricle [1] on our documentation page[2] that should describe how to add a font to the FOP.

[1] http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/addFontToFOP.pdf
[2] http://www.oxygenxml.com/documentation.html

Best Regards,
George

Post by **sebp** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:24 am

I added arabic fonts to FOP. Now it is printing arabic characters but from left to right. As I can see on the FOP compliance page (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/compliance.html) it is not possible to print right-to-left with FOP. Just to reverse the string makes no sense for arabic script.
Is there any possibility to print arabic script correctly with FOP?

Post by **sorin_ristache** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:33 am

Hello,

The FOP processor does not support right to left writing mode. You should try the XEP processor.

Regards,
Sorin