PakType

[Mete Kural <metekural at yahoo dot com>]

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Welcome to PakType. 
A group of volunteer designers and font developers for

making Unicode based OpenType fonts supporting Arabic 
Script. 
We all will be working on various or same font project

at a 
time. Our work will be available on this community's 
web 
site (may be as a link) for download, and we all are 
also 
allowed to share our work with our friends.
Objective:
To make free OpenType fonts for our langauges.
Working Strategy:
Any member can start a font project by anouncing it to

the 
community. Others will reply her/him if they are 
interested. 
This community is not for any personal or commercial 
interest so we can share our work for free with anyone

we 
want.
All glyphs of a font will be responcibility of the 
glyph 
intoducer, and if the community comes to know that the

work 
was not acquired leagally, then the font and 
membership of 
the introducer will be discontinued with formal 
announcement in the community.
Project Phases:
- Glyph introduction
- Basic TTF making
- Adding OTL features
- Hinting
- Releasing in Public domain.

* The first step is to locate the characters that you 
want to include in your font from Unicode chart for 
Arabic range. 
(http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0600.pdf )

* After that you'll need to make all shapes for those 
characters and make a TrueType font using Fontographer

or Font Creator Program or anyother TTF software. 
(http://www.high-logic.com/fcp.html )

* Before proceding to OpenType, become a member of 
Microsoft VOLT Community Page and download Microsoft
VOLT 
(http://groups.msn.com/MicrosoftVOLTuserscommunity )

* After downloading VOLT, go through "Arabic script 
based OpenType font development guide using VOLT" 
(http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/arabicot/default.htm

)

* Now you are ready to make yout own OTF from your 
TTF.

Optional:
* After creating OTF, if you want to hint your font, 
then join VTT Community 
(http://groups.msn.com/VisualTrueTypeUsersCommunity ) 
and download VTT.

Please browse through the Files and Links sections of 
the community.