[Fedora-trans-list] Including Bangla OT Fonts.

[Jamil Ahmed]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sayamindu Dasgupta" <sayamindu at clai.net>
To: "Alan Cox" <alan at redhat.com>
Cc: "Jamil Ahmed" <jamil at billcoms.com>; <fedora-trans-list at redhat.com>;
"Progga" <abulfazl at juniv.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Fedora-trans-list] Including Bangla OT Fonts.


> On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 06:46 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:38:51PM +0600, Jamil Ahmed wrote:
> > > We have already build RPM for this purpose.
> > > But, What about Anaconda? we have translated it fully. :-|
> >
> > Can you explain about Bangla fonts ?
> >
>
> Hi,
> We have created a number of GPL'ed Opentype fonts - the project site is
> http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont
>
> The download link do not work - however, the files are downloadable from
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/savannah/files/freebangfont/
>
> The font that I recommend for use at this moment is MuktiNarrow -
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/savannah/files/freebangfont/MuktiNarrow.pkg/0.94/
> MuktiNarrow-0.94.tar.bz2
>
> This font does not look good when you do printing with it - but at
> present , Indic printing is not possible from GNOME (support is still
> not there in libgnomeprint). Printing from KDE is possible (if you use
> QT 3.2 or above), but Bengali input in KDE based apps is still quite
> flakey.
>
> The MuktiNarrow has been developed from the glyphs of the fonts donated
> by M/S Cyberscape Multimedia Limited. Details at
> http://www.gnu.org.in/software/software.html#akruti
>
> For best results, the MuktiNarrow font should be used with hinting
> turned off - which can achieved on a system-wide basis by inserting the
> following lines in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf or in /etc/fonts/local.conf
>
>         <match target="font">
>                 <test name="family">
>                         <string>Mukti Narrow</string>
>                 </test>
>                 <edit name="hinting">
>                         <bool>false</bool>
>                 </edit>
>         </match>
>
> -cheers-
> sayamindu

You will get some more details from the attached text file. :-)

Thanks,
`Jamil


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