When fop renders Arabic, it uses isolated Arabic forms instead of converting them to the proper presentation forms (initial, medial, final). In contrast, xmlroff using the Cairo rendering engine renders these forms correctly.
Here is a small xml-fo file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><fo:root
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";><fo:layout-master-set><fo:simple-page-master
page-height="11in" page-width="8.5in" margin-bottom="1in" margin-top="1in"
margin-right="1in" margin-left="1.5in" master-name="SudaPage"><fo:region-body
margin-bottom="0in" margin-top="0in" margin-right="0in"
margin-left="0in"/><fo:region-before extent="0.0in"/><fo:region-after
extent="0.0in"/><fo:region-start extent="0in"/><fo:region-end
extent="0in"/></fo:simple-page-master></fo:layout-master-set><fo:page-sequence
master-reference="SudaPage"><fo:static-content
flow-name="xsl-footnote-separator"><fo:block><fo:leader rule-thickness="0.5pt"
rule-style="solid" leader-length="20%"
leader-pattern="rule"/></fo:block></fo:static-content>
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:block font-family="FreeSerif" margin-top=".2in"
margin-left=".5in">
[1] Some Arabic: مسر now some Hebrew: שמו [2] that's all
</fo:block>
</fo:flow></fo:page-sequence></fo:root>
I attach the PDF that fop creates. It has poorly rendered Arabic. It also has
a bidi problem, but that is not the point here.
Raphael
mini.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
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