On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 09:53, C Bobroff wrote:
For making documents to print on paper or to be used as graphics, your
best bet is still Borna Rayaneh:
http://www.bornaray.com/en_fonts.asp?fn=per_fontsrfn=en_fontsparent=fontslistGrand=Main
I really believe that the current FarsiWeb fonts are
Hi,
I read some of your Nazanin discussions from 2002. Now I am wondering if
someone somewhere has created a completely legal and working freeware
version of Nazanin or a font that is similar to it? MS perhaps, or ... I am
totally confused. Should I worry about Linotype or Sinasoft or the other
Please tell the MS guy about it.
I most certainly intend to. As long as I have the facts correct. That's
why I'm checking with you first.
Sinasoft doesn't claim any copyright on their old TTF fonts.
So Sinasoft made the first Nazanin, Mitra, etc?
What is Linotype that the MS guy mentions
We do need to. They told me that it is not for XP, but for the next thing.
I will do some sleuthing and begging. Maybe they'll make an exception and
release the font early.
This is a desperate situation.
So that's a bug in Gecko. Simple!
But if Borna has figured out how to compensate for the
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, C Bobroff wrote:
I will do some sleuthing and begging. Maybe they'll make an exception and
release the font early.
This is a desperate situation.
They need to sell it as part of something. That would be either the next
Office, or the next Windows. The best place we can
version of Nazanin which looks much nicer than Borna's.
Now, someone from M$ is also in that group and trying to tell me I don't
have any right to tamper with Nazanin.
Can anyone here tell me who invented Nazanin? I was under the impression
that it was freeware before the term freeware was invented
where MS bought Nazanin and Mitra from
Monotype.
Could you please clarify? MS bought font(s) originally designed as
freeware??
Does the first person who made Nazanin know about this? I sort of
imagined all these fonts were created in the 1980s out of some love of
Persian computing
