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From: Waleed Yousef <wyousef@fcih.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 24724@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24724: 25.1; Arabic Printing Problem
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:43:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEcWjLE33gWVAv3V6xq2a0V+biDN0sSsERpKW50AOHwyMoC+6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760op8qvu.fsf@fcih.net>

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I reread your reply; it seems that I misunderstood you.

However, I think we have two possibilties: either the ps file is produced
in reverse character order or the gs program renders it this way.

On Oct 18, 2016 6:13 PM, "Waleed Yousef" <wyousef@fcih.net> wrote:

>
> Sorry I did not say that; I just said when I write in libreoffice, I can
> print well.
>
> When I write Arabic in emacs, the buffer looks great. However, when I
> spool to ps and open this ps using Ghostscript the letters are
> reversed. Another clue is this: when I run ps2pdf to the ps file it
> fails converting.
>
>
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> From: Waleed Yousef <wyousef@fcih.net>
> >> Cc: 24724@debbugs.gnu.org
> >> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 17:17:04 +0000
> >>
> >> I just want to be able to print Arabic buffers to pdf or to printer. I
> >> searched alot and then found the .emacs snippet that I included in my
> >> email. If there is another easier way that will be great.
> >
> > So you are saying that djvmono.bdf font (or maybe BDF fonts in
> > general) make the bidirectional text look in the correct order, while
> > other fonts don't?  My guess would be that Ghostscript is reordering
> > the text, I see a bidi module in its sources.  So I think the key to
> > this puzzle is to use Ghostscript.
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-18 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-18 16:21 bug#24724: 25.1; Arabic Printing Problem Waleed Yousef
2016-10-18 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-18 17:17   ` Waleed Yousef
2016-10-18 15:44     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-18 18:16       ` Waleed Yousef
2016-10-18 19:43         ` Waleed Yousef [this message]
2016-10-19  6:10           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-20 18:41             ` Waleed Yousef
2016-10-20 19:28               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08  2:41                 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-08 10:21                   ` Eli Zaretskii

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