[scribus-dev] Scribus: Arabic Support + pre-alpha release help

[Pierre Marchand]

2010/12/31 Astrobob Group <astrobob.tk at gmail.com>:
> Dear Pierre,
>
> I am writing to you upon the suggestion of Greg from the Scribus mailing
> list. I am a newbie to Scribus, but I see its potential.
>
> I recently got in charge of a newsletter & so I opted to give Scribus a try.
> Unfortunately, after some time I discovered that Scribus doesn't support
> Arabic, yet. But I've been told you're in charge of a pre-alpha release that
> will eventually in 2011 support Arabic & that you're in need of someone who
> could help in Arabic.
> I am no Arabic expert but I can write some & read & check its integrity, so
> if I can in any possible way help, it would be great to help.

Hello BOB,

Thanks for your interest and offer. Where we are now with this project
is that homogeneous paragraphs are expected to be correctly shaped,
displayed and exported to PDF. It would be great if you could check
again that this process works correctly. Next step for us is to
re-integrate all the features of the text engine while supporting CTL,
and at this point it can break here and there when typesetting becomes
complex itself, hence need to check again.

You can check out the source on the Subversion server and give it a try.
svn co svn://scribus.info/Scribus/branches/ScribusOIF


>
> I hope that I can help in the process & ultimately, that Arabic becomes
> available in Scribus (even without glyphs for the time being), specially
> that I have learned that promises have been made ever since 2004.
>
> All the best & Happy New Year
>
> --
> Sincerely Yours,
> -BOB Merhebi
>



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