[reportlab-users] RTL Patch Committed

[Hosam Aly]

Andy Robinson wrote:


> 2009/11/19 Muayyad AlSadi <alsadi at gmail.com>:

>   

>> fedora ships fribidi2 by pyfribidi1 that's why

>>     

>

> I'm trying to catch up on this - yesterday was a bit too busy at work

> to follow you all.   This library-version stuff all sounds familiar

> from when I tried it from source a few months back, but sadly I did

> not keep notes.

>

> On ubuntu with just 'sudo apt-get install python-pyfribidi', the test

> on the branch runs and produces a page which reverses the order of

> glyphs, but does not shape the characters.   Also, I cannot find any

> special content in the PDF spec about character shaping, so I guess

> the font is supposed

>

> Am I right in understanding that (a) it all works for Yoann, and (b)

> we'll need specific instructions on compiling pyfribidi for now, and

> will need to get Ubuntu to update their package to make it easy in

> future?

>

> Most RL staff run Ubuntu, and if we can get it working in one place,

> we can then produce instructions (and binaries if needed) for Win and

> Mac.

>

> Thanks,

>

>   

You're right Andy. It works for me too now.

As for installing PyFribidi2, here are the steps to do it on Ubuntu 9.04:

0. Setup dependencies:

sudo apt-get purge libfribidi0 python-pyfribidi
sudo apt-get install autoconf gcc


1. Download fribidi-0.19.2, extract it, open a shell in the extracted 
directory and execute the following command:

./configure && make && sudo make install


2. Download pyfribidi2-0.8.0, extract it, open a shell in the extracted 
directory and execute the following command:

sed -i -r 's/\bfribidi2(\b|_)/fribidi\1/g' configure.in configure setup.py
./configure && make && sudo make install


3. Verify the installation:

python
 >>> import pyfribidi2


Note: If you get an error about libfribidi.so.0 not being found, try 
restarting the machine. If the problem persists, you may need to edit 
"/etc/ld.so.conf", and add the following line:

/usr/local/lib

And then run `sudo ldconfig`.




Best regards,

Hosam Aly
Software Engineer
Centrivision