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Submitted by deepinlife on Wed, 28/09/2005 - 20:05.
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i want to make open office write arbic..i have seen prevoius posts about that but i think i haven't understood it fully.. i have mandrake 10.0..and it can't read arbic folders and things..and i can't write arbic..and i don't know if i have arbic font on my pc or not..can anyone help?

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here what i jave made
Submitted by deepinlife on Fri, 30/09/2005 - 10:47.

i don't care about if it can read arabic folder or not...i just want to write arabic in openoffice.. here what i have made..

1-i have downloaded freetype 2.1.9... and i compiled it with the enable of line 394(changed it from beying a comment..) 2-i have installed a package called openoffice_lar.. gives support for arabic in openoffice..

but still the same problem,.it write arabic overlapped on each other.. any idea

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big problem
Submitted by phaeronix on Fri, 30/09/2005 - 14:10.

I faced this problem before.

You need to upgrade your system and the openoffice package. Move to openoffice-2.0 beta ( currently rc1 I think ).

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?
Submitted by deepinlife on Fri, 30/09/2005 - 15:22.

what do u mean by upgrade ur system?changing from madrake 10.0 to other one.. i think that will be hard..my pc is old and the newer things is heavy on it..

and what does that mean , no way to write arabic on mandrake10.0?

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you just need fonts
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Submitted by Alaa on Fri, 30/09/2005 - 19:15.

you just need to install the fonts packages, open the mandrake package manager (rpmdrake) through the mandrake control center, then search for fonts.

you'll find a list of packages with fonts, install all arabic fonts packages you find (in mandrake 10.1 and 2005 there are at least 3 different packages).

if you have windows installed you can import windows fonts by running the following command as root 


# drakfont --windows_import

generally speaking arabization improves alot with time, so maybe you want to upgrade to mandriva 2005 or at least mandrake 10.1

cheers, Alaa

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As alaa pointed mdk 10.1 or m
Submitted by phaeronix on Sat, 01/10/2005 - 02:54.

As alaa pointed mdk 10.1 or mandriva would be more appropriate and not much heavier.

Although I wish the problem is just missing fonts, I believe there's more to it. good luck.

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i think no hope
Submitted by deepinlife on Sat, 01/10/2005 - 07:08.

here is teh fonts i have installed from mandriva: fonts-ttf-arabic-arabeyes-1.1-1mdk.noarch.rpm* fonts-ttf-arabic-farsi-0.4-1mdk.noarch.rpm* fonts-ttf-arabic-kacst-1.6.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm*

and the problem is the same, but i want to ask about something.. while i was installing using rpm command , he said freetype is not installed....is that because i have installed it from source not from rpm?

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you install using urpmi
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Submitted by Alaa on Sat, 01/10/2005 - 09:55.

in mandrake you install using urpmi and this will grab all dependencies.

I don't really remember mandrake 10 there was a point in time when we had to get freetype packages from PLF or else arabic text would look very weird on open office, not sure this applies to mandrake 10 though.

cheers, Alaa

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I think it was mandrake 10.1,
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Submitted by MohammedSameer on Sat, 01/10/2005 - 19:44.

I think it was mandrake 10.1, Not sure

PLF freetype was compiled with the byte interpreter enabled.

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i now have mandriva
Submitted by deepinlife on Sun, 02/10/2005 - 05:48.

thank u guys for ur effort with me.. i now have written arabic .. thanks again

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10
Submitted by خالد حسنى on Sun, 02/10/2005 - 18:02.

no it was 10 and solved in 10.1

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