[scribus] OT: Font Designer

[Gregory Pittman]

Asif Lodhi wrote:
> 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.
>   
I think the bottom line is that you have exhausted our knowledge of all 
this.
We have had some contact from people in the past suggesting that there 
are efforts to create some open fonts in various Indic languages. It may 
be worth trying to see if you can find these people for their contacts 
and information, how they managed to get started.
Perhaps fontforge has some users who are working on related fonts. Do 
they have any forums?

Greg