This basically down to font design. There are not many arabic fonts out there that can display properly for small size. I think there are no arabic fonts out there that are properly hinted for small size. For small size, most would use Tahoma, which is readable, at best.
I tried to solve this problem in a different way - embedded bitmap. You can try my font at http://mrykacstqurn.wikispaces.com/ . I did not have the time to complete the font to my desire, but it is usable. Regards. On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:40 PM, A.Haq Abbad <[email protected]> wrote: > Salam. > > I am trying to investigate why arabic fonts look "ugly" under GTK, > let that be firefox or Gnome, here is an example below: > > http://www.ojuba.org/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php/thwab/thwab-2.2-bookinfo.png > > As you can see, the top bar, menu, icons and labels all look out of shape, > whilst the centre of the application looks smooth and nice. > > Why can't we have the same effect "clear arabic font" under gnome and > firefox? > > Regards. > > Wassalam. > > _______________________________________________ > Developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer > _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
