[xep-support] XEP with Arabic Typesetting font

[Chris Lilley]

On Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 11:59:59 PM, Mete wrote:

MK> Hello RenderX,

MK> We are evaluating XEP. I have a question at this
MK> point. We want to print Arabic material into PDF. We
MK> want to test the latest Microsoft Arabic font named
MK> "Arabic Typesetting".

Is this the font[1][2] by Paul Nelson of Microsoft Typography, John
Hudson of Tiro Typeworks and Mamoun Sakkal of Sakkal Design[3]?

[1] http://www.sakkal.com/type/typesetting.html
[2] http://www.sakkal.com/type/tdc_competition.html
[3] http://www.sakkal.com/type/

MK> This font requires that we use
MK> the latest version of Uniscribe that comes with Office
MK> 2003 - the version of Uniscribe that comes in Windows
MK> XP will not work.

To be more precise, this is an OpenType font that uses features of
OpenType[4] that older versions of Uniscribe do not support. The font
is not specific to Uniscribe; any OpenType renderer that implements
the features used will work correctly.

[4] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/arabicot/features.htm

-- 
 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris at w3.org
 Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
 Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group

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