[reportlab-users] RTL Support

[Marek Caltik]

Unfortunately, a complex Arabic document with nicely wrapped paragraphs,
tables and, of course with mixed languages, is needed... :)
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Andy Robinson <andy at reportlab.com> wrote:


> That's good to know!

>

> However, the 'drawString' case is easy.  We're just reversing a string.

>  It would get harder if you needed RTL support inside wrapping paragraphs,

> with variations of font and formatting, and with 'English inside Arabic

> inside English'.    I'm hoping simple strings will work for you ;-)

>

>

> On 19 June 2013 15:32, Marek Caltik <marek.caltik at geomodel.eu> wrote:

>

>> There are on the SO page some promising posts, like this:

>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8222517/use-of-arabic-rtl-in-reportlab,

>> ending with "...works perfectly !", so there is a light in the dark - it

>> must be some workaround... :-)

>> Marek

>>

>>

>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:01 PM, J. R. Carroll <jrcarroll at jrcresearch.net

>> > wrote:

>>

>>> Hi Marek,

>>>

>>> I posted an additional response on the SO page (and before I posted

>>> here, I did see your additional photo) - Nascent_Notes =P.  Not sure if you

>>> saw my most recent message, but it looks like RTL is not supported by

>>> ReportLab at this time (still waiting for confirmation)

>>> http://www.reportlab.com/software/dev/ .

>>>

>>> Good luck!  Hopefully someone here can assist.

>>>

>>>

>>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Marek Caltik <marek.caltik at geomodel.eu>wrote:

>>>

>>>> problem is evident. I'm using the latest version of reportlab, maybe I

>>>> missed something to make it RTL enabled...

>>>

>>>

>>>

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