SDF Rendering System 1.0b in Shoebox 4 and later
July 1998

The Script Description File (SDF) rendering system provides basic 
non-Roman script rendering support in Shoebox for Windows.
A Dynamic Link Library (dll) is used to render the script in a 
Shoebox window. The SDF Editor program (Win 95 only) is used to
create and modify the Script Description Files (*.sdf).
Documentation is provided in the SDF Editor Help file.

To enable use of SDF in Shoebox, place a copy of your Script 
Description File (*.SDF) in the same folder as your Shoebox 
Project file (*.PRJ). Then open your project in Shoebox.  
Open the Language Encoding that you want rendered using SDF. 
Click on the Options tab of the dialog box, and press 
the Advanced Options button.  Here enter RENDER.DLL as the 
rendering DLL, and enter the name of your Script Description 
File (*.SDF) as the table.

Technical note: Shoebox will automatically add "16" or "32" to 
the name of the rendering DLL, i.e. when you specify "render.dll" 
Shoebox will call either render16.dll or render32.dll as 
appropriate.

See the SDF Editor Help file (sdfe.hlp) for further information 
on SDF.

SDF Files:
Shoebox Setup installs these files for the SDF rendering feature-

Sdfe.exe                      SDF Editor for Win95
Sdfe.hlp                      SDF Editor Help
Render16.dll/Render32.dll     SDF rendering dll

The SDF Editor won't be installed for Win 3.1 users , but the 
Help file will be because it contains some information that 
will still be beneficial.
Various SDF sample files will also be installed in Shoebox's 
Sample\SdfSamp folder (if you choose to install Samples).


Right-To-Left Text Reverser
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Shoebox is able to print SDF-rendered text directly to the 
printer. If you need to do formatting and page layout
of the rendered text, you can Export it as RTF from Shoebox 
and then format it in Microsoft Word (or another Windows 
word processor). But right-to-left (RTL) scripts will need 
some extra help to work in Word.

Specifically, use the provided "Right-To-Left Text Reverser" 
(RTLrev) utility if your Shoebox database contains SDF-rendered 
text in a right-to-left script and you want to export it and 
print it using a non-Middle-East (e.g. English) edition of 
Microsoft Windows and Word.

To use the RTLrev system, follow the instructions in the 
"SDF- RTL Reverser Doc" (rtlrev.txt).

RTLrev Files:
Shoebox Setup installs these files for the RTLrev system-

Rtlrev.exe/Rtlrev32.exe       Right-to-Left Reverser utility
Rtlrev.dot/Rtlrev97.dot       Word template for Rtlrev
Rtlrev.txt                    RTLrev instructions