PDF generation with Herew/Arabic characters

[2002 JI Open Discussion]

By: Peter Kohlendorfer - kohlendorfer

PDF generation with Herew/Arabic characters

2003-02-19 05:24

Hi,

 

when printing a text consisting of Hebrew/Arabic characters from right to left I get the following behaviour:

In the preview dialog the character order is right to left -> fine.

Printing is the same result as preview -> fine.

When generating a pdf file the character order is reversed: left to right -> :-( (e.g. table = elbat)

Does somebody know, what to do about this?

 

Thanks,

 

Peter

 

 

 

 

By: Peter Kohlendorfer - kohlendorfer

RE: PDF generation with Herew/Arabic characters

2003-02-19 07:16

Hi,

 

I got a reply from one of the iText authors:

 

"Jasper uses ColumnText to display text. By default no ordering is made. You'll have to call ColumnText.setRunDirection(PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL) to have reordering. It's probable that a new Jasper attribute is needed or that jasper scans the text and then decide what to do baseed on the characters, noting that hebrew will also need reordering."

 

I looked it up and found out that iText 0.92 does not support the run direction RTL. Current version 0.96 does. Does this mean that JR currently does not support the generation of Arabic/Hebrew pdf files?

 

Greetings,

 

Peter

 

 

 

 

By: Teodor Danciu - teodord

RE: PDF generation with Herew/Arabic characters

2003-02-19 12:35

 

Hi,

 

After all you said, it seems it doesn't.

If you're interested, you can study this issue

and maybe come up with a suggestion or even

a patch.

 

Thank you,

Teodor

 

 

 

 

 

By: Teodor Danciu - teodord

RE: PDF generation with Herew/Arabic characte

2004-11-16 11:14

 

Hi,

 

JasperReports now supports right-to-left writing.

Check the "unicode" sample that comes with version 0.6.2.

 

Thank you,

Teodor