# Re: Arabic PDF Reports

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-arabic-pdf-reports/83614>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 18, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-arabic-pdf-reports/83614 "2006-03-18T16:40:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-arabic-pdf-reports/83614/1 "2006-03-18T16:40:29Z")

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Austin Z. has written pdf-writer, a tool to produce PDFs in Ruby.  
Maybe you can use say, his file hello.rb, to adjust it’s output to  
Arabic,  
provided you have an  
Arabic font available.  
Maybe you also need to adjust the encoding, I think it’s ISO 8859-6 for  
Arabic.

A more complicated alternative is to use the free and professional  
layout  
software  
“latex”, which lets you generate postscript and pdf files. It has a  
special  
way  
of generating fonts of its own. There is a special project Arabtex for  
Arabic output  
in latex.  
But understanding how Latex works can be quite a lot of work for a  
one-time  
application 😉

Best regards

Axel