[cairo] complex text rendering/layout

[satish kambala]

Thanks Behdad. I will try it.

Regards,
Satish

On 7/24/07, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 13:04 -0400, satish kambala wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to use cairo library for rendering images (including text)
> > in 'Hindi' language (Indian language). Hindi lanugauge
> > follows devanagari script. I am using free type unicode font file
> > (arialuni.ttf ) for doing this. I observed that some characters are
> > not
> > rendered properly. In the following image, I should get the right side
> > image where as I get the left side image.
> >
> > Image:Example.of.complex.text.rendering.svg
> >
> > After a bit of reading came to know that rendering libraries should
> > support complex script rendering to take care of these cases.
> > (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enabling_complex_text_support_for_Indic_scripts
> )
> >
> > I would like to know if cairo supports this, if so do I have to do
> > anything to enable this. Also will using some other font file other
> > than arial unicode file helps?
> >
> > If cairo doesn't support this, is there any other hack (like using
> > some patches or plugins) to accomplish this?
>
> Cairo doesn't support this.  You should use pango+cairo.  That is not a
> hack though, it's a proper solution.
>
> > Please let me know if I made any wrong assumptions. Thanks in
> > advance.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Satish
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