[scribus] Solving Language Issues

مصعب الزعبي moceap at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 3 18:21:03 UTC 2015


Hi All, 

I use Harfbuzz And Fribidi here :
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:moceap/Scribus
But I think if we use :: import <QApplication> like Qt creator will make it not only common but also updated by Qt itself.

Regards
Mosaab

> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 18:13:13 +0400
> From: alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com
> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> Subject: Re: [scribus] Solving Language Issues
> 
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Peter Nermander wrote:
> >> This way Support any language supported by Qt itself (Almost every human
> >> language)
> >>
> >>
> > But that will NOT solve how Scribus renders text on the canvas, becuase
> > there Scribus uses it's own rendering engine to be able to perform precise
> > glyph placement that a regular text input box can't handle.
> 
> What Peter said :)
> 
> Also, Qt relies on the very same glyph shaper called harfbuzz that
> Scribus was going to use. I can recall at least 3 attempts to port
> Scribus to harfbuzz, but all contributors eventually disappeared
> without ever finishing their work, as far as I can tell.
> 
> In other words, a little persistence applied in the right direction
> could get someone a status of international FOSS hero.
> 
> Alex
> 
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