Thanks a lot for enabling Collection Extension in Nepali Wikipedia , it's really useful but we are facing issues since the pdf file generated is not much useful .
OS : Windows and Mac , Browsers : Firefox and Chrome
Steps to Reproduce the bug :
- Go to Nepali Wikipedia and Maithili Wikipedia which use same set of devanagari character set /script
- run book creator (https://ne.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:Book&bookcmd=book_creator&referer=%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF+%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A0) or export a page
- see the text appearing on the page on the browser vs the text appearing on the pdf thus created
Actual result :
- PDF extension is working on a straight forward manner ( byte stream ) without proper rendering or lay outing
Expected result :
- Should support Devanagari rendering rather than just creating the pdf on the basis of byte stream please see the examples
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Suggestion : Text Shaping engines like harfbuzz : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz/ pretty well for Devanagari including Nepali
Ref:
#http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0900.pdf # https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/devanot/appen.aspx #http://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/99235.pdf #http://unicode.org/review/pr-37.pdf