On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Yaron Shahrabani <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi David, > Hi Yaron, thanks for the feedback! > The pdf file itself contains some directionality mistakes, > Could you point to the actual mistakes? You say "some", so I assume it's not the whole text that is affected? > the Arabic text is aligned to the left but it's directionality is LTR. > This seems like a major mistake to me. Again, does this affect the whole text? > > Any info regarding the Hebrew version of the font? It was very long time > ago. > I'm not directly involved with font design, but I will find out and come back to you. Cheers, David. > > > > Yaron Shahrabani > > <DevOps - Hebrew translator> > > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 1:24 PM, David Planella < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding the message to test the new Arabic font to Ubuntu Translators: >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Nicholas Skaggs <[email protected]> >> Date: Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:35 PM >> Subject: New Ubuntu Arabic Font >> To: [email protected], [email protected], >> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], >> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], >> [email protected] >> Cc: Daniel Holbach <[email protected]>, Alan Pope < >> [email protected]>, David Planella <[email protected]> >> >> >> Hello everyone! The design team at Canonical have been working on a new >> Arabic font and we were hoping to get some feedback. I am contacting you >> because you were identified as someone who speaks Arabic or a related >> language that shares the Arabic Alphabet. If you are interested in helping >> out and testing this font, we would appreciate your help. I've placed the >> links below to the font, as well as an example rendition. >> >> http://people.canonical.com/~nskaggs/fonts/Ubuntu-R_w85_h85_2.ttf >> http://people.canonical.com/~nskaggs/fonts/Ubuntu_Arabic.pdf >> >> If you would install the font, and utilize it while using your system >> that would be wonderful. If not, simply disregard this mail :-) >> >> While testing, look for any weird rendering issues or incompatibilities >> with applications you might be using. If you are curious about how to >> install and change fonts in ubuntu, I would refer you to this AskUbuntu >> question, >> http://askubuntu.com/questions/19770/how-do-i-change-fonts-and-adjust-their-size >> . >> >> After installing and using the font for a few days, please email back and >> let us know your feedback and any issues you may have found while using the >> font. Thanks in advance for your help! Either way, we appreciate all you do >> for ubuntu. >> >> Nicholas >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-translators mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators >> >> >
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