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  1. This project aims at increasing the number of available Arabic free and
  2. open source fonts. The goals of this project are,
  3. * Create and/or salvage high quality free and open TTF Arabic fonts.
  4. * Create a central repository of all free and open source Arabic fonts
  5. (TTF and otherwise) in order to get them included into the various
  6. distributions.
  7. * To better couple and artistically match Arabic fonts to their latin
  8. counterparts.
  9. You can visit our web page
  10. http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Khotot
  11. This software package/product and attached documentations are provided
  12. "as is", with no warranty.
  13. -* www.arabeyes.org *-
  14. If you'd like to help the Arabeyes Project, then consider:
  15. http://www.arabeyes.org/donate.php
  16. Typeface and data © 2003-2007, Arabeyes.org.
  17. Latin glyphs (U+0021-U+007E, U+00A1-U+0237, U+1E00-U+1EF9 and
  18. U+FB00-U+FB06 Unicode ranges) are based on "Free UCS Outline Fonts",
  19. www.nongnu.org/freefont (Copyleft 2002, 2003, 2005 Free Software
  20. Foundation).
  21. These fonts are subject to the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC (GPL) LICENSE (Version 2).
  22. See COPYING for details or http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
  23. As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this
  24. font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the
  25. document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to
  26. be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not
  27. however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered
  28. by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may
  29. extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not
  30. obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception
  31. statement from your version.
  32. Release Notes
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  34. 2.0
  35. This the second major release of Arabeyes fonts, this release features:
  36. * Completely new Latin Glyphs, based on font distributed by FreeFonts project
  37. (See the legal notes above)
  38. * Proper support for Arabic diacritics; all fonts now have anchor points
  39. adjusted manually to fit nicely with each glyph.
  40. * Diacritics for AlMothnna, AlArabiya and Tholoth fonts have been redisigned
  41. too look better and fit with the style of the font.
  42. * We dropped ae_ prefix from all fonts, so please fix your configuration
  43. files.
  44. * Various other small fixes, see ChangeLog file for details.