PDF output, columns and/or right-to-left orientation

I've received by mail the following question, which may interest a number of users.

When I try to output to PDF with a right-to-left text,all the signs are printed from left-to-right, but simply mirrored. Is there any way to output to PDF and preserve the right-to-left directionality? For me this works fine with output to Bitmap, just not PDF.

Well, currently, JSesh doesn't handle PDF output in a What-you-see-is-what-you-get way. Basically, it considers the whole document to be a (latin) text, and draws it in left-to-right lines. I'll correct it in the future.

A possible workaround is to use SVG output instead. SVG is a vector format, and you have a very good graphical quality. Then you can use the free software inkscape to render the SVG in PDF (Adobe Illustrator can do it too).