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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. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
