Some arabic fonts in docs are not visible...

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sun Dec 27 23:21:57 UTC 2009


On 12/27/2009 10:11 AM, arshad wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 19:59 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> 
>> 
>> What version of evince & gedit? The test pdf in the bug report worked ok
>> on my version of evince (and Adobe Reader 9):
>> 
>> $ apt-cache policy evince
>> evince:
>>   Installed: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2
>>   Candidate: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2
>>   Version table:
>>  *** 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2 0
>>         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
>>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>      2.28.1-0ubuntu1 0
>>         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
>> 
>> $ apt-cache policy gedit
>> gedit:
>>   Installed: 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
>>   Candidate: 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
>>   Version table:
>>  *** 2.28.0-0ubuntu2 0
>>         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
>>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>> 
>> Although I admit that I could very well missed something as I don't read
>> arabic. However, I couldn't detect any blank white spaces in any obvious
>> locations.
>> 
>> Also viewed w/evince in jaunty (evince 2.26.1) and appears the same and
>> the karmic screen (they are side-by-side). So you're going to need to
>> submit some test pdf's and some screenshot to show what exactly you are
>> missing.

>> 
> should i need to install any kind of packages or arabic fonts?
> thank you very much.
> 
> 

Don't know. I just checked in Synaptic - searched on 'arabic' and find
that I have these installed:

ttf-arabeyes
ttf-kacst
libfribidi0





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