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OPEN  Bug report #973  -  arabic text not supported in synfig
Posted Jun 22, 2016 - updated Jan 05, 2019
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    khq94k
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Issue description
greeting all I am trying to write Arabic in synfig. The text is recognized but it is not showing as it should be. You can see the attached wrong image. The letters is recognized but they aren't in correct form. This is how it should be in second attached image. AFAIK, Layer_Freetype is using pango which supports Arabic very well. I am willing to modify the code put I am straggling to find the right place where to modify.

How to test:

- Add a new text layer - paste this text: "خالد"

Thanks a lot

Steps to reproduce this issue
1- guide me where to change in the code to implement arabic in the correct order.

#4
Comment posted by
khq94k
Jun 22, 09:30
A file was uploaded.
wrong text render
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#5
Comment posted by
khq94k
Jun 22, 09:31
A file was uploaded.
right text render
right text rendericon_open_new.png
#8
Comment posted by
BobSynfig
Jun 23, 16:17
Hi khq94k,

you can find the source code for Layer_Freetype in synfig-core/src/modules/lyr_freetype.

As you can see in the thread Making the Style and Weight parameters of the Text layer work, this layer is "a bit" buggy.

Only a few fonts/styles are currently supported as you can see in the source and in http://wiki.synfig.org/Layers (look for "Text").

By default Sans Serif will be used.

For the moment, unless you can develop a better solution, you should use Inkscape for generation of text as a workaround.

#9
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Dawn Welch
Oct 24, 15:02
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