Re: Open Office Arabic/PDF export

["Ossama Khayat" <ossama at linuxmail dot org>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Mikael Claesson <miclaes at yahoo dot com>

> Hello.

Hello Mikael,

> I was more successful using AbiWord for arabic text.

Actually I'm not experienced with AbiWord. I've used it in different
ocassions but for a short time only.
I tried playing around with it today, using RedHat 9, but I wasn't
successful when trying to write Arabic. I tried all the options inside
the AbiWord's menues, but in vain.
It would be nice if you can provide me with some help on how to use/write
Arabic with this applicaiton.

> It prints to ps and pdf. My only problem was I wanted
> bigger type than 72 points. I managed to get a maximum
> of 258 points by editing the abw-file in a text
> editor. But that still wasn't enough for me so I
> manually edited the final ps file aswell.

I guess this isn't an issue for OOo, but the main problem is that when I
use Arabic Diacritics, the words are broken in the place of the
diacritic as you can see in the sample PDF file. Notice that I was using
Windows XP and not Linux, so it's not a problem of Pango.

> 
> Translating between ps and pdf is easy with ps2pdf and
> pdf2ps. 

Thanks for your information and reply.

> 
> /M

regards,
Ossama Khayat
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