Re: u2ps - Is there any Arabic mail archives?

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu>]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Yukihiro Nakai wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > --- Ossama Khayat wrote:
> > > I really like the output as PDF as it seems so clean. Anway, for
> > > what it's worth, here are some comments:
> > > - Letters are borken on harakat (tashkeel or umlaut).
>
> I need to learn more Arabic knowledge to understand what this mean.
> I compare outputs of Mozilla and u2ps, and I know there are some difference
> in defail.

Mozilla has the same problem too ;).

> Libgnomeprint supports PDF output, so u2ps can support direct PDF
> output logically. But libgnomeprint doesn't support some option for PDF
> mode, so it needs some additional fix for the future.

AFAIK the plan is that libgnomeprint should support Pango, or the
other side, something like that, and then it can print Arabic
too.  Am I missing something?

--behdad
  behdad.org