On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 21:56, C Bobroff wrote: > Too bad the person who drew the original outlines remains a mystery.
That just needs a little research (interviews, etc). Unfortunately nobody in FarsiWeb has the time. > My guess is that most people won't realize they should download the new, > improved Koodak and there goes all your hard work for nothing :( We are not thinking about converting the old fanatics. We just think about claiming new machines with the fonts. After all, some of those fanatics don't want 100% Unicode compatibility, which will show their Yehs (which is usually Arabic Yehs instead of Persian Yehs) show with two ugly dots below them. We are also working with a very generous "Persian-enabler" vendor in this (which I unfortunately can't disclose its name), and hopefully their new clients will have Unicode compatible fonts installed when they install the new product. > In fact, when the people with the old Koodak see boxes instead of your new > characters, they'll really be confused. Then the web page authors can provide links: "See boxes in the middle of the text? Click here". That can even be done in JavaScript, with the software checking the availability of the glyphs in the font. > Can you make some sort of ActiveX font downloader/installer that with only > one click will do everything and if necessary, delete the old Koodak? You > have to make it REALLY easy for them! We'll probably do that when we finished the fonts. Not now. > By the way, why have you said in the "License" that permission is granted > to SELL this font software? Aren't you being just a little TOO generous > there? No, we're not too generous (actually the final licensing will probably be more generous). That's part of the Free Software/Open Source software philosophy that one should be able to sell such software. You can find a very good example of a collection of such software in your computer shop. It's labeled 'Red Hat Linux 9'. > Also, have you not put in all the characters that are on your experimental > Persian keyboard? I couldn't find subscript alif, for example. It's there. It's probably too low (like the Kasratan). But I'm sure that your software won't support it properly. I don't know of any software that does, since this was only encoded in Unicode 4.0 whose ink is still wet. > I'm looking very hard to find bugs for you! Even suggestions are very welcome... roozbeh _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
