[scribus] OT: Font Designer

[Paolo A. Rismondo]

"Asif Lodhi" wrote:
> Lack of education is the primary cause of all problems in my country.
Sorry, Asif, AFAIK "Lack of education is the primary cause of all problems 
in <<all>> countries."
Cheers,
Paolo Alberto Rismondo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Asif Lodhi" <asif.lodhi at gmail.com>
To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [scribus] OT: Font Designer


> Hi Greg and Pierre,
>
> On 12/11/08, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
>> Asif Lodhi wrote:
>>> ... links to FREE and/or Open Source Font Designing Software 
>>> applications ...
>>>
>> ... Creating fonts is no trivial matter, ...
>> So I would think it might be a good idea to further investigate what
>> font design is all about and its difficulties first.
>
> Thanks for the feedback. Here is what I have to say: I am a Pakistani
> and live in Karachi. 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 - the free
> fonts which are available on the Internet look like they were created
> by some toddlers trying to learn how to write the Urdu the first time.
> Neither is there any free DTP (or wordprocessing ... or ANY!) software
> with Urdu (complex script) support. Most people use an Indian software
> (which has a price tag) for Urdu DTP needs. I believe free Urdu
> fonts/software can bring about a substantial change as far as
> education is concerned - it can bring a radical change to the lives of
> poor people.
>
> Lack of education is the primary cause of all problems in my country.
> Though I have not designed any fonts but I have drawn/painted lots of
> pictures/sceneries with pencils/crayons/water since my childhood. I
> feel I can do something with the FontDesigning software. I am
> completely clueless when it comes to terminology and technicalities of
> this domain but trying to learn font-designing to come up with a good
> free complex script Urdu font is less non-trivial than having to see
> the chaos created by the lack of education.
>
> I hope you can feel my frustration. I am willing to learn font
> designing and design a free complex script Urdu font whenever I can
> find time.
>
> I need to know whether FontForge can be used to develop complex script
> fonts. I would be thankful if anyone can tell me about more font
> designing resources.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> -Asif
>
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