Hi Santhosh,<br><br>Cool!. Just have some feedback on the generated PDF (Same article ilangai on tamil wikipedia). I see line spacing is not uniform and some characters from adjacent lines overlap, but a slightly more important issue is spacing within the words for certain characters[Am not sure if its a repeatable pattern for a particular charater], but certainly it takes a toll on readability since it gives space with in a word. I am not sure if its a tamil specific issue too.<br>

<br>Tested on Windows XP with Firefox where tamil wikipedia reads fine.<br><br clear="all">Regards<br>Srikanth.L<br><a href="http://srik.me" target="_blank">http://srik.me</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:36, Santhosh Thottingal <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:santhosh.thottingal@gmail.com">santhosh.thottingal@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

Hi,<br>
We are working on a Complex script PDF rendering library named<br>
PyPDFLib(<a href="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib/" target="_blank">https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib/</a>). One of its<br>
test case (or use case) is to render a wiki page in complex script(any<br>
Indian Language) to PDF. Currently PDF export feature is not<br>
available(not working) for Indian language wiki projects because of<br>
technical incapability of Python Reportlab library.<br>
<br>
Just wanted to give an early preview of this software library through<br>
an online interface : <a href="http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render" target="_blank">http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render</a><br>
You can try with a Wikipedia page in your language and verify the generated PDF.<br>
You can also access this using this URL<br>
<a href="http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render?wiki=http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/" target="_blank">http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render?wiki=http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/</a>இலங்கை<br>
(replace that wiki URL with other page addresses too - any Ianguage -<br>
not limited to Indian languages)<br>
<br>
There are lot of items not implemented, but your feedback is requested<br>
on the current version.<br>
The library uses Pango for text rendering and Cairo for graphics and<br>
PDF features.<br>
<br>
ps: Don&#39;t get surprised if you get a 500 Error page for the random<br>
page you are trying. Just try another wiki page ;)<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
Santhosh Thottingal<br>
<a href="http://thottingal.in" target="_blank">http://thottingal.in</a><br>
<br>
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