Re: Fw:obuntu & arabic fonts

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

Khaled,
I don't think we have discussed before. I'm glad to see someone is
working on font development.

FYI, i have developed a Quran font that have complete symbol to render
the Madinah Mushaf. You can find it at arabicfonts.wikisapces.com.

As for the issues of small size display, I have a different opinion.
In my opinion, hinting may not be the best solution. Instead, you may
want to try embedding bitmap into the font. I have done this. You can
see my font (modified from kacst) at
http://mrykacstqurn.wikispaces.com/ that have the exact feature. At
the moment, it only has 2 bitmap sizes, which is 16px and 21px ( I
think, could not remember anymore). If you are interested to know
more, I'm willing to share my experience.

Regards.

> We are actively working on to solve all issues related to Arabic fonts,
> we are aware of the size problem of Arabic fonts being unreadable at
> small sizes, I don't think this is a Linux only problem, but we might
> try to scale up the glyphs to increase their sizes at small point. I
> believe that the long run solution is to "hint" our fonts, but this is rather a
> time consuming process and needs more manpower than what we actually
> have currently.
>
> --
> Khaled
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