SVG and Arabic font challenges and improvements

Author

Alahmad, M.A. ; Al-shaikhli, I. ; Najaa, A.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Malaysia, Jalan Gombak, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

26-27 March 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

We investigate SVG usage to display Arabic font on the web. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a standard applied widely over several applications. It can be used to display vector graphics and text on web pages. SVG has witnessed several improvements and drew more attention as the devices used to surf the web are evolving in screen sizes and resolutions. This paper demonstrates how to convert normal font to SVG, then opens the opportunity for an engine that can render Arabic SVG font on different platforms and ends with challenges and solutions for them. We speculate that SVG will play great rule in future technologies and making use of it early on can lead to great benefits for Arabic language consumption over the web.

Keywords

natural language processing; rendering (computer graphics); Arabic font challenge; Arabic font improvement; Arabic language; SVG; Web page; rendering; scalable vector graphics; Graphics; World Wide Web; Arabic; Font; HTML; SVG;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M), 2013 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rabat

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0134-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICT4M.2013.6518882

Filename

6518882