خالد حسني أَنَا الّذِي نَظَرَ الأَعْمَى إِلَى أَدَبِي وَأَسْمَعَتْ كَلِمَاتِي مَنْ بِهِ صَمَمُ

Scribus 1.3.5 (not released yet), has support for using TeX for text rendering via a special LaTeX frame.

I grabbed it from svn, built it, some quick configuration to use xelatex instead of pdflatex, and the result is the screenshot above :).

Now, I need to polish this and make a good configuration file for ArabXeTeX (that I'm using on top of XeTeX engine).

Testing Arabic support in maemo (this is maemopad, and the font is my working version of Mothanna font).

I built an Arabic language pack for Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (originally based on Arabeyes translation, but completed and revised).

It can be downloaded from here. Feedback is welcomed.

Update: I've updated the file several times, to fix various problems, since this post, please download it again.

WebKit-r29336 using Pango for font rendering, enabling Arabic and other complex text rendering.

Nafees Nastaleeq font is a great Nasta`liq (AKA Farsi) style font that supports mainly Urdu but some Arabic characters still missing. The font is very carefully designed and looks almost like hand written calligraphy, I'm really impressed by the amount of effort spent to develop such font. What impresses me more is that the latest version was released under a free license.