[Kannada] Petition to kannada newspapers ?

[Pavanaja U B]

Writing s font conversion tool is not that difficult. Baraha Vasu might be of help. He has already written converters for many fonts, except for the Prajavani web-site font. In fact, I used his tool to convert text from my Vishva Kannada web-site into Unicode and paste them on Kannada Wikipedia.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja  

 

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Dr. U.B. Pavanaja

CEO, Vishva Kannada Softech

http://www.vishvakannada.com/

91-80-23309693, 91-9341980400

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: kannada-bounces at sharma-home.net [mailto:kannada-bounces at sharma-

> home.net] On Behalf Of Arun Sharma

> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 11:51 PM

> To: Kannada computing list

> Subject: Re: [Kannada] Petition to kannada newspapers ?

> 

> 

> How difficult would it be to write a script to transform a webpage using

> akpadmi.pfr to unicode?

> 

> So they can use their existing software and existing fonts and the

> output can be postprocessed to be in unicode.

> 

> I'm willing to prototype this and give it to Prajavani for free. But

> will someone at these publishing houses listen?

> 

>     -Arun

> 

> Pavanaja U B wrote:

> > Namaskaara,

> >

> > AFAIK, Prajavani is seriously considering Unicode option.

> >

> > But look at the hindrances as of now-

> >

> > 1.    None of the DTP packages like Quark, PageMaker, Photoshop,

> > CorelDraw, etc. support Unicode compliant Indic opentype fonts

> >

> > 2.    There are not many good publishing quality opentype fonts

> > available for Kannada

> >

> > 3.    Old systems like Windows 98 do not support Unicode Kannada/Indic

> >

> > Solutions:

> >

> > 1.    Prajavani and other leading publications and also leading

> > publishers should pressurize the DTP software vendors to provide support

> > for Indic opentype fonts and Unicode.

> >

> > 2.    Publishers, software makers like Microsoft, Adobe, Quark, Govt,

> > etc. should fund the development of Kannada opentype fonts and release

> > them in public domain.

> >

> > 3.    Windows 98 with IE6 can display Kannada Unicode web-sites

> > employing dynamic fonts. However they can not enter Kannada Unicode text

> > into the web-sites (forms).

> >

> >

> 

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