Re: New version of arabic font

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa> wrote:
> Nadim, please modify this section of the TODO_global
> 
> - Free Fonts
>    + Need KACST to include the various changed from M.Yousif (Quran)
>    + Need KACST to consider some changes,
>      - Tashkeels/diacritics deminsions (kacstposter/kacstdecorative/kacst-qr)
>      - kacst-qr font is too small in size. ------------- I cofirm this is
>         done so remove it.
> 
> Add:
>    + the fonts.cache-1 file the Style is set to the font name, insted of 
> "Regular", "Bold" etc.
>     + the font coverage should be extended beyond
> just arabic language, to include glyphs used by Farsi and Urdu, as well
> as gaf (used in a lot of place names in Maghrib), that way those fonts
> could become the default fonts for all arabic script languages, in a way
> similar as to how Arial is a default for latin/cyrillic.

Done, let me know if there are other changes (on this topic or others).

  http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/ae_admin/todo/TODO_global

Salam.

 - Nadim


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