Thank you, once again, Anivar.
Rendering Engines like Pango evolved through more than
10 years of
patching & correction by language communities. It work Pretty well in
most of the indic languages.
That's a relief!
Now For latin script wiki's there is PDF download
option & Pediapress
to print them directly
In short Rendering is a major roadblock in reaching wikipedia to
masses. The projects like santhosh's effort are very important to
fill this gap.
Indeed and I now see how important it is to be able to abstract away
OS dependency on this as well.
This is the only viable option as of now. Most of the
languages have
around 10-20 popular fonts . Creating Mapping tables for them is
anyway a big task .
Wow! That is impressive - I was looking at it through a publishing
lens - a print publishing lens, and from what little I know, they use
hundreds of fonts over the years and as important as online is, there
is also this mass of legacy content locked up away and that will never
see the light of the internet unless such mapping tables are created.
There is no other free alternative . BTW Document
Conversion is a big
business and many corporates are working on this area to provide
solutions for companies & governments
Really? Would you be able to point me to any products or services that
exists around this, please?
In my opinion, Efforts on this will be waste of time
& money .I dont
believe in miracles with CDAC.
*sigh*
CDACMumbai have a history of GPL Licensing one font
series as a part
of their indix project , Raghu Series, by Late. Prof. R.K.Joshi,
Famous Calligrapher and Researcher in Type faces.
I did not know this - thanks for pointing me to it.
Yes. And Problems & instability in unicode
encoding also affects this
Thanks much Anivar. I really appreciate the answers and have learned much.
Best,
Gautam
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