[Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages

[BalaSundaraRaman]

Hi Santhosh,

Good work with the library. I tried a few pages like பட்டாம்பூச்சி, 
மாந்தவுருவகம் etc., and I got an error. However, it worked for the Tamil Wiki 
example you cited, இலங்கை and the Malayalam wiki example Mango.

Some quirks:
1. insertion of intra-word spacing (like Srikanth and Shiju mentioned)
2. hyphenation is without the hyphen sign
3. image layout as others observed
4. I notice that the இ in இலங்கை appears to be larger and starting from slightly 
below other characters. Is it because of the font used? In fact, I just notice 
that it is so in this email text as well. Is it due to my client-side fonts?

I'm sure that it'll be very useful once the issues are fixed. I can already 
dream of pediapress for Indian languages.

- Sundar

 "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for 
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture



----- Original Message ----
> From: Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com>
> To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. 
><wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Mon, February 14, 2011 10:36:14 PM
> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages
> 
> Hi,
> We are working on a Complex script PDF rendering library  named
> PyPDFLib(https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib/). One of  its
> test case (or use case) is to render a wiki page in complex  script(any
> Indian Language) to PDF. Currently PDF export feature is  not
> available(not working) for Indian language wiki projects because  of
> technical incapability of Python Reportlab library.
> 
> Just wanted to  give an early preview of this software library through
> an online interface :  http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render
> You can try with a Wikipedia page in your  language and verify the generated 
>PDF.
> You can also access this using this  URL
> http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render?wiki=http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/இலங்கை
> (replace  that wiki URL with other page addresses too - any Ianguage -
> not limited to  Indian languages)
> 
> There are lot of items not implemented, but your  feedback is requested
> on the current version.
> The library uses Pango for  text rendering and Cairo for graphics and
> PDF features.
> 
> ps: Don't get  surprised if you get a 500 Error page for the random
> page you are trying.  Just try another wiki page ;)
> 
> Thanks
> Santhosh  Thottingal
> http://thottingal.in
> 
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