Re: [linuxiran] Nastaligh - HELP!

[Hooman Baradaran]

Finally I had time to get back on this. I tried another Farsi font and it 
doesn't have a problem. Also tried opening the original font in fontforge and 
save it without modification and that screws up the font.

On August 2, 2004 10:28 am, Matthias Laabs wrote:
> > > I changed the font using fontforge. The preview looks OK but when I use
> > > the font in OpenOffice.org, all letter are final letter (i.e. no
> > > CHASBEEDEH). Any one familiar with editing Persian fonts in Linux?
> > > I've attached the (updated) file.
> >
> > Well, first of all, does your OOo support joining? Are you sure that it
> > is your font's problem rather than OOo's problem? Try your font in kedit.
>
> The problem is the font - OOo supports RTL, Bidi,  Unicode ... though it is
> buggy with farsi at some points. Anyways the font shows the same behavior
> in kedit.
>
> Maybe you can try to edit another farsi font - if it results in the same
> problem you can assume that fontforge screws up some unicode/bidi tags in
> the ttf-headers.
>
> greets,
>
>
> matthias
>
>
>
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