Comments on: Using Arabic Scripts With Blender

By: islam

islam — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:12:27 +0000

@T.K.I think ur script is interesting.Indeed it can be used as a base .It uses the same Technique .
Thx

By: houari

houari — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:09:26 +0000

*hello
*i have used gimp for the font that you can export to jpg or another graphic format then opened the file with inkscape
*inkscape will convert the bitmap to a path and then saved work as svg file
*imported that svg to blender
*et voilà…

By: T.K.

T.K. — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:59:33 +0000

@islam, thank you for the interesting article (I read the English
version). As some people have pointed out, a Python script for
Complex Text Layout (CTL) would be helpful.

This idea reminded me that I had tried the same thing in Skencil,
a vector drawing program that allows plug-ins to be written in
Python. The results of my trials and errors are available as an
experimental Skencil plug-in named PolygloText:
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~rd6t-kjym/sketch/#PolygloText
I achieved CTL by means of the m17n library. The Skencil plug-in
may be a little bit out of date, since it uses an older version of
the m17n library.

I believe, however, this Skencil plug-in would be a good start point
for a script for CTL in Blender. I don't have enough time and
knowledge to implement it at the moment. So if someone is willing
to do that, please feel free to ask me for help. My e-mail address
is shown in the documentation of PolygloText.

By: al

al — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:18:16 +0000

Hi all, thanks b@rt for this article, in fact I always found this lack of handling complex scripts languages in blender somewhat limiting.
But I found my own workaround I do write my text in Inkscape or in gimp and transform it to path then import it in blender, and this works fine for me, though results are better with Gimp (no need for any adjustment after import ).
But indeed it would be great to have this feature in blender.

By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:01:09 +0000

A python script would be useful indeed.

By: islam

islam — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:57:29 +0000

i hope this refactoring can give us the opportunity to help .and i vote yes for you idea martin .

By: martin

martin — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:36:22 +0000

I have put this into Blenderstorm as idea #363: Handle right-to-left text correctly http://www.blenderstorm.org/qapoll/ideas/idea/363/ . Mod it up if you think it is work doing.

By: panzi

panzi — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:26:24 +0000

@islam
As I understand it, blenders codebase needs major refactoring to make such features possible. But major refactorings are scheduled for blender 2.50, so maybe after 2.50 such a feature will be implemented. Again, this is only what I "heard", nothing I know for sure.

By: islam

islam — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:44:30 +0000

Hi
thx for ur intrest guys it's nothing.
i think Yudit and inkscape are good ideas too
but i'm just wondering why blender can not support non latin character writtings directly .are there projects around to do that ?
i hope so .as i think this will help alot and non latin language users can help to perform that .

By: hamed zaghaghi

hamed zaghaghi — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:40:49 +0000

Hi,
@ROUBAL: i use inkscape for persian it works fine,
and @panzi yes it supports all case, at least for persian language