Re: [general] [developers] Fwd: iPhone, iPad, android arabic support

[Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya <meor dot ridzuan at gmail dot com>]

Abdul Raziq,

me_quran is my font. However, the screenshot that you attached is not my font, but rather IOS system font. The system font uses AAT, and not opentype. If you are satisfied with the result, than that's fine, but don't expect to get a better result without someone from Apple to work on it. 

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Abdul Raziq <jashsoftpk at yahoo dot com> wrote:

Thanks all for the reply. There is one free quran font available on internet named "me_quran". Its a TTF font. I have tested this on iPhone and iPad devices and font works well but the alignment of glypses need some improvement to make it appear clearly. On desktop that font works perfect. I am attaching the screenshot of my test.

Is it possible to get this me_quran font modified to get it fully compatible on iPad and iPhone devices?

Regards,
Abdul Raziq
http://www.quranreference.com

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From: Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya <meor dot ridzuan at gmail dot com>
To: Development Discussions <developer at arabeyes dot org>
Cc: Abdul Raziq <jashsoftpk at yahoo dot com>; General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2013, 12:11
Subject: Re: [developers] Fwd: iPhone, iPad, android arabic support

Unfortunately, IOS (Ipad,Iphone) and Android do not support Opentype.  IOS are suppose to support AAT fonts, but you won't be able to embed AAT fonts for Arabic into your application without some kind of hack. This is a well known bug, and I'm not too sure if it has been fixed. Even if it is fixed, it is rare to get a good Arabic AAT font. The one and only that I know is from SIL (as mentioned, you still can't use it to embed it into your app).

I've created a workaround to embed a font into your IOS and Android App, but it it not a standard arabic font, so it is not easily used by anyone.

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug dot org> wrote:

Amiri Quran, from[1], should work on any device with decent OpenType
support.

[1] http://amirifont.org/

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:27:43PM -0500, Youssef Chahibi wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Abdul Raziq <jashsoftpk at yahoo dot com>
> Date: Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:28 PM
> Subject: iPhone, iPad, android arabic support
> To: "contact at arabeyes dot org" <contact at arabeyes dot org>
>
>
> Assalam-o-Alaikum,
>
> You know of any quran font which is fully compatible on iphone, ipad and
> android devices? I would be glad to hear back from you soon.
>
> Regards,
> Abdul Raziq
> http://www.quranreference.com

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