[cairo] Cairo PDF output broken with Noto Nastaliq Urdu font

Adrian Johnson ajohnson at redneon.com
Wed Nov 19 03:33:39 PST 2014


On 19/11/14 11:57, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Copying from:
> 
> https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=207
> 
> Using HarfBuzz or Pango create a PDF of text rendered in Noto Nastaliq Urdu
> [0], observe that it's broken and doesn't match the PNG output from the same
> tool.  Eg:
> 
> $ hb-view NotoNastaliqUrduDraft.ttf --font-size 24 --text-file sample
> --output-file sample.pdf
> 
> Where sample includes following text:
> 
> تمام انسان آزاد اور حقوق و عزت کے اعتبار سے برابر پیدا ہوۓ ہیں۔
> انہیں ضمیر اور عقل ودیعت ہوئی ہے۔ اسلیۓ انہیں ایک دوسرے کے
>  ساتھ بھائی چارے کا سلوک کرنا چاہیۓ۔
> 
> 
> 
> For background re this font and all the other pieces of software it broke, see:
> 
> 
> http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2014/11/i-can-get-another-if-i-break-it.html
> 
> Adrian, any chance you can spend some time on debugging this?

Yes, I can have a look when I get time. The best way to ensure this does
not get overlooked is to file a bug. I've done this for you at:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86461


> 
> [0] https://noto.googlecode.com/git/fonts/alpha/NotoNastaliqUrduDraft.ttf
> 
> Thanks,
> 



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