| to be accurate, I am using gt-2.5 not geoserver — On Sun, 1/18/09, Justin Deoliveira jdeolive@anonymised.com wrote: > From: Justin Deoliveira jdeolive@anonymised.com > Subject: Re: [Geoserver-devel] Problem in Rendering Arabic Labels > To: “Ahmad Al-Obaidy” ahmad@anonymised.com > Cc: geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, “Andrea Aime” aaime@anonymised.com > Date: Sunday, January 18, 2009, 12:21 AM > > Actually maybe it is not the new labeller… I believe it is only the default in the up coming 1.7.2 release. Regardless… andrea should be able to better comment. > > -Justin > > Ahmad Al-Obaidy wrote: > > I don’t really know about the new labeler, but the old one was able to render arabic labels correctly… > > > > There is good case, and sample shape file in http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-1369 > > > > — On Sat, 1/17/09, Justin Deoliveira /jdeolive@anonymised.com/ wrote: > > > > > > From: Justin Deoliveira jdeolive@anonymised.com > > Subject: Re: [Geoserver-devel] Problem in Rendering Arabic Labels > > To: “Ahmad Al-Obaidy” ahmad@anonymised.com > > Cc: “Andrea Aime” aaime@anonymised.com, > > geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009, 12:50 AM > > > > Hmmm… I wonder if this is a regression that has come out of using > > the new labeler? > > > > Ahmad Al-Obaidy wrote: > > > The bug seems to exists again in the gt-2.5  > > > > > > — On Mon, 10/8/07, Andrea Aime /<aaime@anonymised.com > > /mc/compose?to=aaime@anonymised.com>/ wrote: > > > > > > > > > From: Andrea Aime <aaime@anonymised.com > > /mc/compose?to=aaime@anonymised.com> > > > Subject: Re: [Geoserver-devel] Problem in Rendering Arabic Labels > > > To: “Ahmad Al-Obaidy” <ahmad@anonymised.com > > /mc/compose?to=ahmad@anonymised.com> > > > Cc: geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > /mc/compose?to=geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > > Date: Monday, October 8, 2007, 7:57 PM > > > > > > Ahmad Al-Obaidy ha scritto: > > > > Hi Andrea, > > > > Thank you for being interested… > > > > > > > > I can gratefully provide sample data, the expected output and > > > test any patch… > > > > > > > > And even try to fix it out with some help > > > > > > > > As for the problem, I think it came from the Geotools > > LiteRenderer… > > > > > > > > I tried to hack the code… And it seems LiteRenderer is using > > > Graphics2D for rendering maps… > > > > I tested the Graphics2D and it work just fine with Arabic text > > > using drawString… > > > > > > > > I didn’t figure out the code responsible for draw > > labels… but > > > what I had conclude is LiteRenderer is rendering each letter > > > separately… and this bring the problem in… > > > > > > > > Because Arabic text is written in script manner and from > > right to > > > left rather than in separate manner and left to right like Latin > > > alphabets… > > > > > > Ahmad, > > > in GeoTools we cannot use drawString directly because we need > > a set > > > of informations that only GlyphVector can provide (we use > > them to draw > > > halos, and to perform label collision detection and avoidance). > > > The method we were using so far to build worked for most > > fonts, but > > > not for Arabic and a few others. I tried to fix it without > > giving up > > > too much performance in the western case, but I’m not sure > > about the > > > results. > > > > > > Can you have a look at > > > http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/attachment/29786/arabic.png > > (attached to > > > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-1369) and tell me if > > this is fine? > > > > > > Cheers > > > Andrea > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > > > SourcForge Community > > > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Geoserver-devel mailing list > > > Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > /mc/compose?to=Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel > > > > > > – Justin Deoliveira > > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > > Enterprise support for open source geospatial. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > > SourcForge Community > > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Geoserver-devel mailing list > > Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel > > – Justin Deoliveira > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Enterprise support for open source geospatial. |
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