Re: Quran PDF generation, help needed

[Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya <meor dot ridzuan at gmail dot com>]

I think I've found out what are the problems with my previous attemp
of PDF generation. For some mysterious reasons, the Postscript output
from IE have some problems with font with composite glyph. When I make
all the glyph as simple glyph, the problems seems to go away. I think
I'm stuck with another MS bug.
So, looks like there is a workaround of the problems. There is one
more problem though that still exist in IE implemention of arabic,
which is problem with printing a justified arabic script. On screen,
it does the justification correctly by inserting the tatweel character
here and there, but when it comes to printing, the tatweel seems to be
missing from the printout. So, no justification for printing for now.
Office 2003, on the other hand, does not insert tatweel, but insert
space between words instead, so the problem does not happen.

On 7/19/05, Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya <meor dot ridzuan at gmail dot com> wrote:
> I've tried to generate PDF files  for the Quran text many times, and
> all of them seems to have problems generating the correct output. I'm
> using PDF995 and PrimoPDF, both generate almost the same problem.
> Basically, It will show that some of the glyph is missing from the
> font by displaying the rectangular box, which is actually there in the
> font. After some troubleshooting work, my guess is it is not the fault
> of the PDF generation, but the Postscript generated by Windows printer
> driver. I generate postscript files using a few postscript printer
> driver, but all resulting the same as the PDF. PDF generated under
> Linux is far worse, maybe I don't have the correct tools.
> 
> However, when I generate PCL files, it seems to generate to correct
> output. So, my guess is windows postcript support is buggy. Anyway,
> there is nothing much I can do about it.
> 
> So, does anyone have any other suggestion on how I can create the PDF?
> I can assure you that this is a complex process because it involve a
> complex font. My idea is we might be able to convert the PCL files to
> PDF and get the correct results, but , so far only possible thru a
> commercial program which I dont have. PDF is necessary because seem
> like a lot of people prefer it, and thus would ease up the
> verification process. If anyone would only like to print the quran
> text, I can give the PCL files and you can print it directly to a PCL
> printer.
> 
> Wassalam.
>