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Center
for Research in Urdu Language Processing at National
University of Computer and Emerging Sciences announces the beta release of character-based
Nafees Tahreer Naskh v1.0 Open Type Font for writing
Urdu in Naskh script based on Unicode standard. Guidance
and calligraphy of basic glyphs for the font has been
provided by Syed Jameel-ur-Rehman. He is pupil of Syed
Nafees Shah and Hafiz Syed Anees-ul-Hassan. This font
is a text font and specially designed for better on
screen readability at small point sizes.
Nafees
Tahreer Naskh v1.0 allows Urdu computing on Microsoft
2000, NT, XP, Unix and Linux platforms. This font enables
desktop and internet publishing, and electronic communication
in Urdu using existing software (without any plug-in)
supporting OTF specifications, e.g. MS Word, MS Excel,
MS Outlook (email), Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator,
Mozilla, MS PowerPoint.
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**OTF
not supported by Windows 98 or below.
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