[xep-support] Problem displaying italic arabic characters

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Hello,

I'm evaluating XEP at this time to use it in a Cocoon web application. I
face a problem displaying arabic characters with italic style. I joined
a minimal fo sample and the associated screenshot.
As you can see on the screenshot, arabic characters are not displayed
properly when using italic or bold-italic style.

As I open the generated PDF file with Acrobat reader, I got an error
message saying: "Can't extract embedded font: GFEDCB+Arial+ItalicMT.
Some characters won't be properly printed or displayed", and another one
"A substitute font can't be found" (messages translated from french by me).

To embed fonts, I uncomment the section relative to Arial font in
$XEP_HOME/etc/fonts.xml :
    <font name="ArialMT"
          ttf="C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf"
          embed="true">
      <alias name="Arial"/>
    </font>
    <font name="Arial-BoldMT"
          ttf="C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arialbd.ttf"
          embed="true">
      <alias name="Arial-Bold"/>
      <alias name="ArialMT-Bold"/>
    </font>
    <font name="Arial-ItalicMT"
          ttf="C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ariali.ttf"
          embed="true">
      <alias name="Arial-Italic"/>
      <alias name="ArialMT-Italic"/>
    </font>
    <font name="Arial-BoldItalicMT"
          ttf="C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arialbi.ttf"
          embed="true">
      <alias name="Arial-BoldItalic"/>
      <alias name="ArialMT-BoldItalic"/>
    </font>

Any help appreciated.

Pierre
N.B.: I use XEP v3.8.1 Developer Stamped Edition on WinXP Pro with SUN
JRE 1.4.2_01.

-- 
Pierre Dittgen
PASS Technologie http://www.pass-tech.fr

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