[scribus] scribus Digest, Vol 68, Issue 20

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> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:33:04 +0200
> From: "Tzippy Yarom" <zpyarom at gmail.com>
> To: <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
> Subject: [scribus] Scribus and Hebrew
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> While looking to solve my problems with Hebrew and Scribus, I found the
> issue enclosed.
>
> http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/2012-December/048116.html
>
> The general problem is that when you flip the Hebrew (with the flipped "R"
> in the options of the text box) it also flips the text itself into a
> mirror-text. So I used the following script to do both: flip the text and
> have it straight and not "mirrored".
>
> Enclosed is the script, for anybody who would like to use it. It still
> have the problem with paranthesis, brackets and numbers, but this is a
> start. I hope to have time to do more, when I would - I'll post what I'll
> do.
>
> If anybody have any ideas for more issues to solve with Hebrew and
> Scribus, please let me know and I'll try to put time for it.
>
> Here is the script:
>
> from scribus import *
> if haveDoc():
>     nbrSelected = selectionCount()
>     objList = []
>     for i in range(nbrSelected):
>         objList.append(getSelectedObject(i))
>     for i in range(nbrSelected):
>         try:
>             obj = objList[i]
>             setProperty(obj, "m_ImageIsFlippedH", True)
>             setProperty(obj, "reversed", True)
>             moveObject(1, 0, obj)
>             moveObject(-1, 0, obj)
>             docChanged(1)
>             setRedraw(True)
>         except:
>             nothing = "nothing"
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Hi Tzippy,
Cool script! Synchronistically enough, I just commented on an open issue
related to hebrew fonts with in the Scribus Bugtracker.
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1726
I'm not sure what the status is (hence my comment). Would you be interested
in digging deeper in to this?

Kunda
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