Shaping for Arabic, Devanagari, CJKV?

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From: pd
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:10

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I'm looking for some open source solution that will take an input
string and an OpenType font, and produce PostScript or some other
format with appropriate glyph substitution, positioning, etc.  I don't
want to actually render the text.  I just want the shaping done.

Ideally, this would be available for Windows.

Anyone know of such a tool?

Thanks,
-pd

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