Draw Arabic Text to Canvas for printing

Asked Jul 10 '15 at 09:10

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I am working on a project where I am printing vouchers to a pos printer. So far I only had to print English so that was fine, however, a new requirement has been added to print arabic. From research I gather this is all but impossible and the printer manual states that the printer doesn't have arabic character set.

So I'm wondering if it's possible to draw it to canvas correctly so I can create a bitmap.

I have tried this in a previous project but the writing was very small and not formatted in the way the string was.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Regards, Gary

edited Jul 10 '15 at 14:08

asked Jul 10 '15 at 09:10

DJ-DOO

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It seems possible, have a look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8961636/html5-canvas-filltext-with-right-to-left-string – Niddro Jul 10 '15 at 13:50
@Niddro hi, I failed to mention I was trying this on Android – DJ-DOO Jul 10 '15 at 14:09
give sample code of what you have done, and a snapshot, and which version of android you are testing on. – Mohammad Ersan Jul 10 '15 at 14:16
I have it printing on POS printer in English, now it's a requirement to print Arabic. I don't have anything done with it as of yet....Do you mean from the previous project? – DJ-DOO Jul 10 '15 at 14:19
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you can use a normal TextView then draw it on your canvas – Mohammad Ersan Jul 10 '15 at 14:46
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check this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5242757/how-to-draw-textview-on-canvas-in-android – Mohammad Ersan Jul 10 '15 at 14:53

Draw Arabic Text to Canvas for printing

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