[scribus] OT: Font Designer

[Asif Lodhi]

Hi Lars,

On 12/12/08, Lars Behrens <lars.behrens at pi.uka.de> wrote:
> Am Freitag, 12. Dezember 2008  schrieb Asif Lodhi:
>> ... There is NO free Urdu (Pakistan's national
>> language which is 90% Hindi and 10% Persian+Arabic but with
>> Persian/Arabic complex script/font) font available here
>
> I am no expert on that, but do you know these ...
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/paktype/

These are "Naskh" fonts - not the complex script Nastaleeq-style. As
far as I know, NO Urdu newspaper in Pakistan uses Naskh fonts or
mainstream publishing. No Urdu publication can gain wide-spread
adoption unless and until it's in Nastaleeq. All Nastaleeq
(complex-script) fonts are proprietary. I know about PakType but they
are not upto the mark even by Naskh standards. Naskh fonts are easy to
develop and program but they are hardly used to write Urdu - though
Naskh fonts _are_ used in other Pakistani languages.

Thanks for the feedback,

-Asif