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RE: Arabic printing in Solaris - a2ps support for iso-8859-6 {PUBLIC} {I
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Senthilvelan Manickam |
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RE: Arabic printing in Solaris - a2ps support for iso-8859-6 {PUBLIC} {INTERNAL} |
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Wed, 31 Dec 2014 20:44:53 +0300 |
Dear James,
Thanks for your response.
Please share me the iso-8859-6.edf file. I shall have a look at the below for
having the corresponding font.
Regards,
Senthil.
-----Original Message-----
From: James Cloos [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 8:26 AM
To: address@hidden
Cc: Senthilvelan Manickam
Subject: Re: Arabic printing in Solaris - a2ps support for iso-8859-6 {PUBLIC}
>>>>> "SM" == Senthilvelan Manickam <address@hidden> writes:
SM> We are trying to print Arabic text to one of the dot matrix printers
SM> that supports Arabic from Solaris 10. ...
SM> When we print, English then it prints fine but when we print Arabic
SM> it prints junk. On investigation found out that a2ps can be called
SM> with -encoding and we don't find iso6(ISO-8859-6) as one of the
SM> supported encoding format.
Adding support for iso-8859-6 will be easy, but beyond that one requires a
suitable font and suitable shaping. (Looking at 8859-6,
For complex scripts like arabic, harfbuzz would be a better solution.
Harfbuzz can be found at:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz
https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz
Its hb-view program can output pdf or postscript, in addition to svg svg and
images.
HB has the advantage that, when used with a quality font, the output will be on
par with written Arabic, using all of the initial, medial and final forms as
expected. Printing 8859-6 directly would only show the isolated glyphs.
-JimC
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