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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 granted
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
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* 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.txt,
* You may not modify any of the accompanying documentation
and/or files,
* you may not distribute Pars Ziba along with or as a part of
any program or package without the 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
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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