| 1 | This project aims at increasing the number of available Arabic free and
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| 2 | open source fonts. The goals of this project are,
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| 3 |
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| 4 | * Create and/or salvage high quality free and open TTF Arabic fonts.
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| 5 |
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| 6 | * Create a central repository of all free and open source Arabic fonts
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| 7 | (TTF and otherwise) in order to get them included into the various
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| 8 | distributions.
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| 9 |
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| 10 | * To better couple and artistically match Arabic fonts to their latin
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| 11 | counterparts.
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| 12 |
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| 13 | You can visit our web page
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| 14 | http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Khotot
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| 15 |
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| 16 | This software package/product and attached documentations are provided
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| 17 | "as is", with no warranty.
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| 18 |
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| 19 | -* www.arabeyes.org *-
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| 20 |
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| 21 | If you'd like to help the Arabeyes Project, then consider:
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| 22 |
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| 23 | http://www.arabeyes.org/donate.php
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| 24 |
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| 25 | Typeface and data © 2003-2007, Arabeyes.org.
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| 26 |
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| 27 | Latin glyphs (U+0021-U+007E, U+00A1-U+0237, U+1E00-U+1EF9 and
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| 28 | U+FB00-U+FB06 Unicode ranges) are based on "Free UCS Outline Fonts",
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| 29 | www.nongnu.org/freefont (Copyleft 2002, 2003, 2005 Free Software
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| 30 | Foundation).
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| 31 |
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| 32 | These fonts are subject to the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC (GPL) LICENSE (Version 2).
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| 33 | See COPYING for details or http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
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| 34 |
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| 35 | As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this
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| 36 | font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the
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| 37 | document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to
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| 38 | be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not
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| 39 | however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered
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| 40 | by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may
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| 41 | extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not
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| 42 | obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception
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| 43 | statement from your version.
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| 44 |
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| 45 | Release Notes
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| 46 | -------------
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| 47 | 2.0
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| 48 | This the second major release of Arabeyes fonts, this release features:
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| 49 | * Completely new Latin Glyphs, based on font distributed by FreeFonts project
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| 50 | (See the legal notes above)
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| 51 | * Proper support for Arabic diacritics; all fonts now have anchor points
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| 52 | adjusted manually to fit nicely with each glyph.
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| 53 | * Diacritics for AlMothnna, AlArabiya and Tholoth fonts have been redisigned
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| 54 | too look better and fit with the style of the font.
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| 55 | * We dropped ae_ prefix from all fonts, so please fix your configuration
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| 56 | files.
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| 57 | * Various other small fixes, see ChangeLog file for details.
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| 58 |
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