Re: RTL Support

Marek Caltik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.reportlab.user
Message-ID <CAFcdJJeHbkbDMd10Fq8=d8A-sGV=Sqw-TuAsounFHmAn9+GmJg@mail.gmail.com>
Unfortunately, a complex Arabic document with nicely wrapped paragraphs,
tables and, of course with mixed languages, is needed... :)
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Andy Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's good to know!
>
> However, the 'drawString' case is easy.  We're just reversing a string.
>  It would get harder if you needed RTL support inside wrapping paragraphs,
> with variations of font and formatting, and with 'English inside Arabic
> inside English'.    I'm hoping simple strings will work for you ;-)
>
>
> On 19 June 2013 15:32, Marek Caltik <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> There are on the SO page some promising posts, like this:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8222517/use-of-arabic-rtl-in-reportlab,
>> ending with "...works perfectly !", so there is a light in the dark - it
>> must be some workaround... :-)
>> Marek
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:01 PM, J. R. Carroll <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Marek,
>>>
>>> I posted an additional response on the SO page (and before I posted
>>> here, I did see your additional photo) - Nascent_Notes =P.  Not sure if you
>>> saw my most recent message, but it looks like RTL is not supported by
>>> ReportLab at this time (still waiting for confirmation)
>>> http://www.reportlab.com/software/dev/ .
>>>
>>> Good luck!  Hopefully someone here can assist.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Marek Caltik <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> problem is evident. I'm using the latest version of reportlab, maybe I
>>>> missed something to make it RTL enabled...
>>>
>>>
>>>
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