RE: finding a good Arabic font

["Boncek, John" <jboncek at hunter dot com>]

How can I get this font to try it?  Or can you just send a copy? 

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at arabeyes dot org [mailto:general-bounces at arabeyes dot org]
On Behalf Of Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 12:47 AM
To: General Arabization Discussion
Subject: Re: finding a good Arabic font

You may want to try my font, mry_kacst at wikispaces. It is a truetype
font with embedded bitmap. It has 2 bitmap sizes, 12 pt (16 pixel) and
16 pt (21 pixel?) . It has Opentype support, it that is what you want.

On 7/10/07, Boncek, John <jboncek at hunter dot com> wrote:
> I know TTF would be usable.  I'm not sure which bitmap font types are
> usable in Linux, but if you know a Linux-compatible bitmap font type
that
> would also be OK.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at arabeyes dot org [mailto:general-bounces at arabeyes dot org]
> On Behalf Of Ahmed MANSOUR
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 1:53 PM
> To: General Arabization Discussion
> Subject: Re: finding a good Arabic font
>
> what kind of font are you looking for TTF or bitmap? I think bitmap
> fixed size font look better at small size.
> Le lundi 09 juillet 2007 à 08:47 -0500, Boncek, John a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am looking for a good-appearing Arabic font or set of fonts for an
> > embedded application.  Memory is tight, so a reasonably small size is
> > important, preferably under one megabyte.  Screen space is also
> > limited, so a font that appears at less than 20 pixels or so total
> > height while still being legible would be desirable.  The application
> > runs in Linux with GTK and Pango using the Unicode encoding UTF-8.
> > Can you recommend a suitable font or set of fonts?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > John Boncek
> >
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