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Topic: Indic Scripts like Hindi / Tamil in PDF

Anyone having the ligatures for Tamil?

1. Why was arialunicid0.php removed from reporting/fonts folder? Does the current cid0XX.php files from the TCPDF project replace them?

2. Any examples of Indic fonts being successfully used for reporting in FA?

3. FreeSans.ttf needs to be added to the reporting/fonts/ folder since it is the default used for unicode in reporting/includes/class.graphic.inc in line 160, now that everything is going unicode... The said font can be taken from the GNU Project Archives.

4. $UTF8_fontfile defined in config.php needs to have the font file (TTF/OTF, etc) in the reporting/fonts/ folder as well but that is an enduser choice of override.

5. Complex Ligatures as in Indic Scripts (Hindi/Devanagri, Tamil, etc) are discussed here for Jasper Reports and developed for PDF Export using the Open Office Library here. Using Java with iText for Indic Scripts is discussed here. Indic Script usage in Jasper Reports using Unicode is discussed here.

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