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2005-01-16 10:59
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scribus_error_screenshots.png (74,341 bytes) |
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Yes, we know. One day, maybe even soon-ish. |
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BTW, Qt doesnt get it ALL right for all Indic languages |
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Scribus uses its own rendering engine based on libart. |
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Please supply some test texts and perhaps a font if it is a shareable font. |
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2005-02-24 04:53
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2005-02-24 04:59
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I have uploaded the Lohit Tamil font from Fedora Core 3 and some sample UTF-8 text for Tamil. FC3 also comes with a font for Devanagari called Lohit Hindi. UTF-8 sample texts for most indian languages are available from wikipedia. e.g., hi.wikipedia.org (Hindi/Devanagari), bn.wikipedia.org (Bangla). I will load additional fonts as I can get hold of them. |
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2005-02-24 05:20
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Well, as far I think if Scribus depends GTK2 or QT then all Indic languages will work fine. I'm a Bangla user and Bangla also doesn't work. If you'll design a new rendering engine, then there might be some problem. I found it depends on *libart* but how to sort the problem? |
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2005-06-21 15:09
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Just uploaded "SolaimanLipi.ttf" which is a Bengali font. Please check. |
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(Support for Indic Scripts in Scribus) Please go to http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Complex_Script_Functionality and add details for your script. |
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Plenty of fonts for complex scripts are listed at: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Fonts and at http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ P.S. Wondering why Scribus is using a "rendering engine based on libart" rather than something like cairo which already has good support for complex-scripts? |
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Khmer-Sample.txt (774 bytes) |
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It would be wonderful if this could be fixed! Khmer also does not render correctly. Cairo would be great! Thanks, Nathan |
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Cairo + pango do not provide the advanced typographic features needed by Scribus. So basically they are of little help here. |
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Please let me know about your solution. Thanks, siva |
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@jghali Thank you for your response - that helps us understand why a change has not been made over the past 7 years. Might a concept like the "World Composer" in Adobe InDesign work for Scribus? Meaning that a Cairo + Pango rendering engine could be used for a special "World Language" text box? That way Scribus could extend its user base, as well as continue to use its current rendering engine for the "advanced typographic features" it needs? I don't have any experience in this, so sorry if such a suggestion is absurd - I'm just trying to help push the need so many of us have :) It really is a shame that there is currently no open-source unicode compatible desktop publishing software available. |
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Any thoughts on when this might be put into the roadmap? I've got to work with Lao, Thai, Myanmar and Khmer fonts (all of which have positional vowels (some with positional tone marks). Your feature set is really maturing, but this non-latin/indic font support is required for our work out here in Chiang Mai. I can give example fonts/etc., if I knew that someone would be working on this. It seems to be the oldest bug in the database. |
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A solution for Indic fonts has been submitted by an external developer/development team last month. It just takes some time to review and test, but if all works well, it is certainly to be expected in 1.6, and the original developer even offered to backport it to the 1.4x series. |
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Wonderful news! Please let us know if the developers need anything (fonts, sample text, beta testers etc.), we would be happy to supply what we can. |
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we are always waiting for the wonderful news. I can join with nathan, and help to you. Please let us know |
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Here's the announcement, but please read the whole thread: http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/2012-August/047258.html I'm pretty sure that many of you could help. |
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Any way to get a Windows build for me to test with? |
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no windows build from us yet. but if you want to help out, we have an "indic" branch in our git servers: http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Git for the first tests, i think it's better to concentrate on linux and on people that can build their own scribus... our resources are scarce... if you need help on compiling scribus, you can join us in the irc channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/#scribus or http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Special:WebChat it's possible to get a linux to work in a virtual machine and compile scribus there. hth a.l.e |
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I too face the same issue.. Any help on this please? |
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Sabarish, we don't anticipate this being fixed immediately. It has been an issue for many many years. But recently there has been some movement around getting this to work correctly in Scribus. Please see the recent post at: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/109612024486187515483/109612024486187515483/posts/Dy86BFX4Gim |
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According to HOST-Oman team, these issues are fixed in the new CTL branch! See https://github.com/HOST-Oman/scribus/issues/75#issue-142809558 There will be a build provided soon to test this fix OR one can build their branch manually. |
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I installed Scribus 1.5.3-svn just now in the hope that Indic support will be included as suggested in the post by Kunda from March 2016. However, still seeing issues with devanagari rendering for Hindi. |
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Please also note that Indic (Brahmic) scripts such as Devanagari, Bagla, Tamil etc are NOT RTL. This issue has been tagged incorrectly with RTL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmic_scripts |
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the support for non latin languages is being worked on in this branch: https://github.com/HOST-Oman/scribus/commits/ctl merge in the svn trunk (and release of 1.5.3 with it) is planned for later this year. |
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>> Hi >>If you can attach the source document we can test it for you. We'd need to know an appropriate font to use as well. >>Thanks >>Craig Hi Craig, Since the email did not show up in the thread, I am attaching the image which shows that devanagari is being rendered correctly in the Story Editor but not in the layout and also a text file with the devanagari text. I have uninstalled scribus so don't have the 'source' scribus document, but you can copy the devanagari text to test. I used Arial Unicode MS font on Windows 10. Other Devanagari fonts on windows are Mangal, Kokila, Aparajita. Lohit Devanagari is available from Fedora. Other fonts that could be used are Annapoorna SIL, Sanskrit2003, Siddhanta, Chandas, etc. Links to the ttf files can be found at https://sourceforge.net/p/tesseracthindi/wiki/OCR%20for%20Devanagari/ I have seen similar broken devanagari for conjuncts and combining mark for i when using Xetex - it is related to fontspec. When Script=Devanagari is declared for a newfontfamily it ativates the font's particular support for devanagari script. I tried looking under preferences/options in scribus where I might be able to choose language/script but did not find it. If you need more info, I will be happy to reinstall scribus and test further. scribus-devanagari-error.png (151,401 bytes) |
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Looks like I can only attach one file at a time. Here is the devanagari text file. scribus-devanagari.txt (785 bytes) |
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Please check the new screenshot I just added. It has the rendered text from our CTL branch with your screenshot in front. Screenshot 2016-09-15 21.22.29.png (152,491 bytes) |
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The devanagari text rendered from the CTL branch is correct. Thanks to the development team which made it possible. This will go a long way in fulfilling the need for open source DTP for Hindi and other Indian and Indic languages. Is there any possibility of a windows binary from the CTL branch? There would be a number of users willing to test and provide feedback. Looking forward to 1.5.3 release. Thanks! |
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