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Re: [LI] help with plugins
Yes, I have visited webdunia.com and there are quite a few websites which
are
using dynamic fonts (for bengali you can visit bengali.org) The trick behind
all
these are a couple of lines as follows in <HEAD></HEAD> section:
<link rel="FONTDEF" src="http://www.webdunia.com/eotpfr/Webdunia.pfr";>
<link rel="FONTDEF" src="http://www.webdunia.com/eotpfr/Webdunia_Bold.pfr";>
Here the PFR files contain all the information of dynamic fonts. If you hit
about: in netscape (or HELP -> ABOUT) then you will get a page which talks
more about dynamic fonts and bitstream.com You can find more info from
there.
I can give you links to tools which can generate PFR files but I would not
recommend using these proprietary technologies. A better option would be to
use UTF8 encoded text with ISO646-1 fonts like UNIFONT and try to persuade
everybody to move to ISO standard fonts.
UNIFONT is a worldwide effort to get all the glyphs of Unicode under GPL
license in the lines of cyberbit.ttf from bitstream. [link
http://czyborra.com/unifont ]
Currently it has devnagri fonts donated by Sandeep Sibal et.al. of the
famous
ITRANS fame. [link http://www.aczone.com ]
HTH
-swaps
To: linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Re: [LI] help with plugins
From: "Samdarshi Pali" <samdarshipali@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 00:03:10 +0530
In-reply-to: <199910151147.EAA07621@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>I think you are going for a wrong and difficult solution. Plugins
>won't solve the ISCII encoded text rendering problem. Indian
>Languages can be easily displayed _now_ using DYNAMIC
>FONTS in all versions of current browsers (correct me if I am
>wrong).
Have u ever visited www.webdunia.com? It is a web portal site in
Hindi language & Devnagri and may be using DYNAMIC FONTS.
Very easy to browse and display very well in all latest browsers. I
was little bit confused, when I first visited this site. Your hints about
DYNAMIC FONTS give me some clue.
Tell me more about DYNAMIC FONTS or suggest some links to
find more information. I am also interested in web designing in
Indian languages.
Samdarshi
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