[vox-tech] Re: Hebrew TrueType fonts and AbiWord bidi 1.0.0

[Ken Bloom]

I never did figure out the thing with the David font, but I did finally
get hebrew fonts into AbiWord. I reverted to the original AbiWord fonts
folder (I didn't want to deal with the Windows fonts), and I added the
elmar_scalable postscript fonts. I used pfa2afm (it spit out an error
message, but it still spit out the necessary files just fine-I used the 
version included in AbiWord 1.0.0's source tree because the version available
for download at http://bibliofile.mc.duke.edu/gww/FreeWare/MyToys.html
didn't work) to generate .afm files for each of the elmar_scalable
fonts, I stuck the fonts and their .afm files in the abiword fonts
directory. I updated fonts.dir and fonts.scale (by appending the file
from the elmar_scalable directory and updating the count) and I was good
to go. It even prints!!!

Ken Bloom wrote:
> I'm trying to convince AbiWord to print hebrew characters, to no
> success. Using a Font "David" that contains hebrew characters, I typed
> the message "This is the "David" font." followed by four hebrew letters.
> When I printed to file (with fonts embedded) and viewed this document
> using gv, I saw the message "This is the "David" font" but did not see
> any hebrew characters. I tested the hebrew characters in both
> Left-to-Right and Right-to-Left (the way they're supposed to be printed)
> to see whether that was the problem, but that did not improve the
> situation.
>
> The characters display just fine in AbiWord, but not in ghostscript and
> they don't print to my Deskjet 932c printer (using ghostscript+gimp-print).
>
> Any ideas how to make this work?
>