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From: suhans@let.vu.nl (suhans)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Arabic Font(s)
Summary: arabic fonts with mls
Keywords: arabic
Message-ID: <579@vulet.let.vu.nl.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 89 09:29:47 GMT
References: <1556@esquire.UUCP> <17262@rpp386.cactus.org>
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In article <17262@rpp386.cactus.org>, woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes:
> In article <1556@esquire.UUCP>, whalen@esquire.UUCP (Rachel Whalen) writes:
> > 
> > Does anyone know if Arabic fonts are available - and where to get them?
> > (Something in the public domain would be especially excellent.)
> > 
> > Thanks!
> 
> Yes, there do exists arabic fonts.  There is a company that makes a program
> called Muli-Lingual Scribe that is a wordprocessor supporting about 5 or
> 10 languages including arabic, hebrew, cyrillic, greek and several others.
> They have drivers for the various languages, and have fonts as well.  I think
> that they work with dot matrix printers and some lasers in dot matrix emulation
> format.  I'm not sure where they are located, but a good PC program refernce
> should list them as they have been around for a while.

We are using MLS with laser and matrixprinters.
For laserprinters the fonts arabic, hebrew etc are downloaded (softfonts). 
For 24-p matrix printers the fonts are also downloaded (NEC P6+ etc)
For 9-p printer the fonts are in bit-image in graphic mode ( very slow)

The name of the program is Multi Lingual Scholar from Gamma productions
Address: 710 Wilshire Blvd, suite 609, Santa Monica, CA 90401 USA
Tel: 213.394.8622



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