[scribus] OT: Font Designer

[Asif Lodhi]

Hi Pierre,

On 12/12/08, Pierre Marchand <capparis at free.fr> wrote:
> Vous (Asif Lodhi) avez écrit :
>> 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
>
> Hi Asif,
>
> [1]<http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary>
> [2]<http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/#Mail>

Thank you very much for the open font library link. I feel that this
will help. Thanks.

-Asif