Hi Santosh,
In some other thread of this mailing list i found that
TCPDF(www.tcpdf.org/)
have a good support for the unicode, but i just downloaded the code and
tried it. I found that it also have some issues on for the Bengali/indic
texts. Have you tried with this library?
I will apply for the GSoC on this project and before staring on a specific
tool i would like to study the other existing tools. Because though they do
not have to full support for the languages but they are good at some
points, like Render can render the texts properly and existing pdf tool
works well with the collection extension.
thanks
nasir
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Volker Haas <volker.haas(a)brainbot.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi all.
I just wanted to confirm that Santosh's description of the current
limitations of the PDF rendering engine are accurate.
Regarding the GSOC project: As the principal developer of the current PDF
rendering I'd also be happy to share insights on PDF rendering. Let me know
if I can do anything to help.
Best Regards,
Volker
Am 04.03.2012 07:30, schrieb Sumana Harihareswara:
On 03/03/2012 10:25 PM, Santhosh Thottingal wrote:
Here i have a question that at this moment is
there any developer of
developer group is working on this issue? if yes
then i want to join
with
him.
I had discussed this with Pediapress developers in the past. I
started a project many months back to develop a general purpose PDF
rendering library for complex scripts and I had announced it here:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/**pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/**
2011-February/002198.html<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia…
And I have an online version based on the code
in development
http://silpa.org.in/Render. It can create PDFs from Bengali wiki pages
and possibly most of the scripts that we support. The text rendering
engine used is Pango. This is my petproject and 2-3 people joined me,
but recently it is inactive in development since we are not getting
free time. The library require lot of work to reach a reasonably
usable state. Then it require good amount of effort to integrate with
collection extension.
The project is hosted at
https://savannah.nongnu.org/**projects/pypdflib<https://savannah.nongnu.…
and available in Debian.
Thanks
Santhosh
Santhosh, it looks like Nasir might be interested in working on this as
a Google Summer of Code project:
... Is [it] possible to apply GSoC for this issue.
If this is the case, Santhosh, would you
be interested in possibly
mentoring Nasir?
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