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- Today being the first day of the Persian year 1372, I am releasing
- the first Persian True Type for Windows (as far as I know - let me
- know the first one.)
-
- Pars Ziba is copyrighted by Tooraj Enayati, however you are grated
- permission for personal use only, and to distribute it as long as
- you meet the conditions set out in this document.
-
- I think True Type fonts are the great. However I failed to find
- any Persian/Farsi ones around. So I designed my own. It wasn't easy.
- I have put in a lot of work on the design. I hope it is useful to
- you. However I must admit it is far from being complete as I'd like
- it to be. Lack of a true standard for Persian font encoding made my
- task even harder.
-
- Pars Ziba as is will allow you to enter Persian letters and type
- in Persian with a limited degree of ease! You might like to get
- hold of WinGreek (version 2 or above) which comes with a Hebrew
- driver to allow you type right to left. It is a shareware program and
- available from most anonymous ftp sites. This will allow you to use
- any Windows editor/WP (in conjunction with Pars Ziba) just like a
- Persian typewriter. It will not do any font management and encoding.
- That is, it will only display what you type and will not change
- the font depending what come after or before the character you type!
-
- To achieve this we need to have our own driver (Windows TSR.) Right
- now I am working on this and hopefully I'll have it ready along
- with a much better looking fonts by mid '93. So you may get in
- touch to get the complete version as soon as it is ready.
-
- I am only distributing this initial release of Pars Ziba through
- Internet. I encourage you to distribute the font amongst your
- friends and those who need it, as long as you observe and respect
- the conditions set out under CONDITIONS OF DISTRIBUTION.
-
-
- CONDITIONS OF DISTRIBUTION
- ==========================
-
- * You may not charge any money for Pars Ziba (including
- its associated files and/or it's distribution,
- * You may not modify or convert Pars Ziba under any
- circumstances without author's written permission,
- * You may not separate parsziba.ttf from its documentation
- namely, parsziba.wri, and parsziba.txt,
- * You may not modify any of the accompanying documentation
- and/or files,
- * you may not distribute Pars Ziba along or as a part of
- any program or package without author's written permission.
-
-
- I welcome any comments and requests. And I'd like to hear from those
- who' like the complete package and these who'd like to include Pars
- Ziba into their commercial products.
-
-
- I'll soon be converting Pars Ziba to some other formats as well,
- such as ATM , MAC True Type, PS etc. So if you are interested get in touch.
-
-
- INSTALLATION AND USE
- ====================
-
- To install use the Control Panel and Fonts, under the Main program
- groups of Windows 3.1. You'll probably need to install the
- US-international keyboard layout from the International option of
- Control Panel, as it provides the most number of accessible characters
- on the keyboard and eliminates the need to use the Alt-number trick.
-
- As I mentioned before, WinGreek will make using Pars Ziba
- easier/practical. However, it is not perfect. It can not handle
- carriage returns and alternative characters (Alt-Ctrl-key).
- Using WinGreek, you might like to press Ctrl-Sht-H to switch to Persian
- and then use your Editor's justify right option to start typing in
- Persian (after selecting Pars Ziba from the font option.) To insert
- a line before your current line just press the Enter key at the end
- of line. To insert a blank line after your current line go to the
- beginning of the line and press the enter key.
-
- WinGreek, treats any character entered by holding Alt-Ctrl as an
- accent and will not advance the cursor! So for these characters
- you'll need to use the arrow key to advance the cursor. I know
- that is a pain but, for time being that'll have to do :-(
-
-
- Enjoy it
- Tooraj Enayati
- 21/03/93
-
- Internet: tooraj@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au
-
- Tooraj Enayati
- 107/259 Malvern Road,
- South Yarra, VIC. 3141
- AUSTRALIA
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