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+This project aims at increasing the number of available Arabic free and |
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+open source fonts. The goals of this project are, |
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+ * Create and/or salvage high quality free and open TTF Arabic fonts. |
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+ * Create a central repository of all free and open source Arabic fonts |
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+(TTF and otherwise) in order to get them included into the various |
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+distributions. |
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+ * To better couple and artistically match Arabic fonts to their latin |
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+counterparts. |
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+You can visit our web page |
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+http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Khotot |
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+This software package/product and attached documentations are provided |
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+"as is", with no warranty. |
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+ -* www.arabeyes.org *- |
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+If you'd like to help the Arabeyes Project, then consider: |
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+ http://www.arabeyes.org/donate.php |
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+Typeface and data © 2003-2007, Arabeyes.org. |
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+Latin glyphs (U+0021-U+007E, U+00A1-U+0237, U+1E00-U+1EF9 and |
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+U+FB00-U+FB06 Unicode ranges) are based on "Free UCS Outline Fonts", |
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+www.nongnu.org/freefont (Copyleft 2002, 2003, 2005 Free Software |
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+Foundation). |
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+These fonts are subject to the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC (GPL) LICENSE (Version 2). |
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+See COPYING for details or http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html |
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+As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this |
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+font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the |
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+document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to |
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+be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not |
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+however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered |
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+by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may |
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+extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not |
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+obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception |
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+statement from your version. |
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+Release Notes |
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+------------- |
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+2.0 |
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+This the second major release of Arabeyes fonts, this release features: |
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+ * Completely new Latin Glyphs, based on font distributed by FreeFonts project |
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+ (See the legal notes above) |
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+ * Proper support for Arabic diacritics; all fonts now have anchor points |
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+ adjusted manually to fit nicely with each glyph. |
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+ * Diacritics for AlMothnna, AlArabiya and Tholoth fonts have been redisigned |
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+ too look better and fit with the style of the font. |
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+ * We dropped ae_ prefix from all fonts, so please fix your configuration |
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+ files. |
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+ * Various other small fixes, see ChangeLog file for details. |
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