[cairo] New to Cairo: advice on creating PDFs with Arabic text (via input from libotf or SIL graphite2)

[Dov Grobgeld]

Here is an example that I wrote in vala a few years back that renders a
UTF-8 text file into multiple png files through vala and pango:

https://live.gnome.org/Vala/PangoCairoSample

Using cairo with pango is pretty trivial and I see no reason to bother with
other libraries.

Regards,
Dov



On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Graham Douglas <
graham.douglas at readytext.co.uk> wrote:

> Dear List
>
> I'm new to Cairo and have just compiled Cairo 1.12.14 as a static
> library under 64-bit Windows 7. I'm interested to create PDFs containing
> Arabic text using the output of either libotf or SIL's graphite engine
> to provide glyph IDs and positioning information. I know that there is a
> library called Pango for advanced text layout but, at least initially,
> I'd prefer to work  with libotf/graphite. I'm also not using harfbuzz or
> anything as advanced as that (e.g., for bidi-work) having written my own
> fairly basic Arabic-shaping "engine". Just to note that this is purely a
> hobby project and probably something I'll write-up on my blog -- of
> course I'll thank/mention any advice or help received here.
>
> Would anyone be able to share a small snippet of C code, or point me to
> an example, showing how I can get started with  the appropriate Cairo
> API to generate PDFs containing Arabic text, assuming that all glyph and
> positioning information is available to provide to Cairo's API calls?
>
> With thanks in advance
>
> Best wishes
>
> Graham Douglas
> http://readytext.co.uk
>
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