Thank you, Eva. I have wasted no time adding your additional tips to my Persian Mac info page in English: http://students.washington.edu/irina/persianword/mac.html I did edit out the "Dear fiends" part although I'm afraid your subconscious has discovered the true nature of the folks here :)
Hope you inspire others to also send in more tips to help the "friends" and "fiends" alike! Also I just heard from Ali Samadi that the Iranian Mac User group (in Persian) is actually at: http://www.irmug.org (I think I had a mistake earlier.) -Connie On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Eva Braiman wrote: > Dear fiends, > > Thanks so much for the posting on Mac Persian word processing for the > mac. I have had great success using all the tips I have gotten from > this list. > > For example, I was able to salvage a Farsi manuscript with the > following steps: > > 1. Take a DOC file created on an old Windows 98 (Arabic) machine > running Parsa 99 and Zarnigar 97, copy it to the Mac (OSX 10.3.4) > 2. Open the DOC file in Word (where the characters turn to gibberish) > and save the file as an RTF > 3. Using Mellel, with Persian ISRI keyboard and B Yagut font, import > the RTF file and it looks nearly (a few yeh and alignment problems, but > no big deal) perfect! > > Yay! > > Eva Braiman _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
