Re: Ligation Issues in Arabic & Devanagari

Hello Erik,

I'm not sure but I may have had the exact same issue and  Glenn Adams
provided me with a simple solution that worked. See:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/xmlgraphics-fop-users/201606.mbox/browser

Best regards,

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Le 06/04/2017 à 16:57, Erik Ogan a écrit :
> I am having some issues with ligation in Arabic & Devanagari scripts
> in my embedded FOP application. I have not disabled Complex Script
> Features, and have explicitly turned them on just to be sure:
>
>   …
>   FopFactoryBuilder builder = new FopConfParser(cfgStream,
> baseURI).getFopFactoryBuilder();
>   builder.setComplexScriptFeatures(true);
>   …
>
> I’ve searched the archives for tips, but most of the discussion of
> ligatures is around removing/disabling them.
>
> This discussion was the only one I found that seemed like it offered a solution:
> http://marc.info/?l=fop-user&m=142547685119005&w=2
>
> But alas, adding script attributes to my fo:block elements (as you’ll
> see in the file below) seems to have had no effect.
>
> I’m using NoTo Sans as my font, which does have ligature information.
>
> Here is an example (intermediate) FO file:
> https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/erik-fop-questions/with-scripts.fo
> (I have also tried downcasing & upcasing the script attributes)
>
> Here is my configuration file:
> https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/erik-fop-questions/config.xml
>
> And here is a resulting PDF:
> https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/erik-fop-questions/current.pdf
>
> The most _infuriating_ part of this is that before this project was
> put on hold 1.5 years ago I apparently had it working in early
> experiments (before I’d even corrected the alignment of Arabic &
> Hebrew):
>
> https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/erik-fop-questions/2015-08-09-example.pdf
>
> I am using the same code, with the same configuration and font files,
> yet it is producing a different result. I’ve been tearing my hair out
> for weeks trying to figure out what is different.
>
> I also have a dim memory of having had this issue in earlier
> experiments, and discovering a simple solution. But I have NO idea
> what that solution was, nor how it would be external to the code &
> configuration I am currently running.
>
> … I JUST had a flashbulb memory that perhaps the solution then was
> upgrading from Java 1.6 to 1.7. I’m running all of this on 1.8 right
> now.
>
> Any help or suggestions folks have would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!
>
> -e
>