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Anonymous anonymous at easysw.com
Sun Nov 28 20:44:16 PST 2004


Ahmad Khalifa wrote:
>
>
> the CUPS arabic patch is still available at arabeyes' cvs here...
> http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/projects/external/cups/
>
> not much work was done in the past few months because I have reached
> a dead end with the font issue. the patch includes a PFA font which
> contains the Arabic characters and the Presentation Form-B chars (i.e
> 0x0600 and 0xFE00 ranges), I check the font with pfaedit and it works
> fine but prints whitespace inplace of arabic glyphs...
>
> the patch adds Transparent char support via a modification to lchar_t
>
> whats left is...
> + Change the coding conventions to follow CUPS'
> + Upgrade miniBidi (the Bidi library)
>
> my problem is that the patch fails to print visible arabic chars. so
> doing the above would be useless...
>
> I need some help with the font issue, Please do look at the font and
> the psglyphs file and the utf-8 file, and advise me of any necessary
> changes, otherwise Im completely stuck here :(
>
>
> ak.





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