"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" <[email protected]> To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.info> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
