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