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Now get our beautiful Armenian font
in a Unicode™-encoded version!

for Windows (coming soon)

for Macintosh (available now)

LaserArmenian® in Unicode™ provides a professional-quality, Unicode-encoded Armenian font (ArmenianLSU) in TrueType® format, for typing the Armenian language, for transliterating Armenian into the Latin alphabet, and for typing English and west European (Latin 1) languages. The font is provided in normal (plain), bold, italic, and bold-italic forms. Included keyboard software provides four intuitive input methods. The keyboards support the Eastern Armenian standard, the Western Armenian standard, a phonetic Armenian keyboard layout (based on the US keyboard), plus an English keyboard providing access to the transliteration symbols needed to transliterate Armenian.

LaserArmenian in Unicode is available now for the Macintosh and will be available soon for Windows.

Be sure you read the System Requirements for Windows or for Macintosh before ordering. Order

ArmenianLSU Font Samples

Because Armenian text is normally slanted the Italic and Bold-Italic forms of the font are shown first.

The ArmenianLSU Italic font

The ArmenianLSU BoldItalic font

Normal (vertical) and Bold forms of the ArmenianLSU font

The ArmenianLSU Regular (vertical) font

The ArmenianLSU Bold font

Armenian punctuation and accents

Armenian Punctuation using the ArmenianLSU font

The ArmenianLSU font includes Abbreviation bars.
(They are demonstrated here over vowelsnot over actual abbreviationsto illustrate bar height.)

Armenian Abbreviations using the ArmenianLSU font

The ArmenianLSU font supports several transliteration methods:

Hübschmann-Meillet transliteration method

LaserArmenianU supports transliteration using the Hübschmann-Meillet transliteration method.

Library of Congress transliteration method

LaserArmenianU supports transliteration using the Library of Congress transliteration method.

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TransCyrillic in Unicode for WindowsLaserArmenian in Unicode for Windows (coming soon)
LaserArmenian in Unicode for Windows includes four keyboard layouts that provide four-characters-per-key input in Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows NT 4.0. The keyboards support 1) the Eastern Armenian standard, 2) the Western Armenian standard, 3) a phonetic Armenian keyboard layout (based on the US keyboard), and 4) an English keyboard providing access to the transliteration symbols needed to transliterate Armenian.

Windows System Requirements:
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Fonts and keyboards: Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows NT 4.0.

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Fonts alone: Windows Me, Windows 98, or Windows 95.

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Please read the notes below to be sure you understand the limitations you will have if your Operating System is not Windows XP, 2000, or NT 4.0.

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Any Unicode-compatible application, such as Microsoft Word 2003, 2002, 2000, or 97 is compatible. Adobe® InDesign® is compatible. (Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 is not compatible.)

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Older, non-Unicode applications such as Word 95 (Word 7) and Word 6 will not work with these fonts. Corel WordPerfect (any version) and Lotus Word Pro (any version) will not work with these fonts.

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Do you need a copy of Microsoft Word 2002? We can provide the OEM version at a discounted price.

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 (included in Microsoft Office 2003) is not compatible with LaserArmenian in Unicode for Windows. All text is changed to the Arial font, whether typed with the keyboard, input using Insert Symbol, or pasted from Word using the Windows clipboard. PowerPoint users should type their text in Word or another Unicode-compatible application, and save the text as a graphic for import into PowerPoint. Users can also use WordArt to create their text. To do this in PowerPoint go to Insert, Picture, WordArt, and type your text, formatting it as desired. Alternatively, users can type directly into PowerPoint using our non-Unicode LaserArmenian fonts. (Earlier versions of PowerPoint have not been tested for compatibility with LaserArmenian in Unicode.)

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These fonts are compatible with the Macintosh version of LaserArmenian in Unicode. No conversion of files is necessary when transferring files to a Macintosh if your applications are fully Unicode-aware and compatible fonts are installed on both systems.

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Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows NT 4.0: To use the keyboards for easy input of Unicode text you must have Windows XP, 2000, or NT 4.0. The included keyboard drivers provide four characters-per-key input (instead of the normal two characters-per-key), following our paper keyboard layout chart. This provides easy, intuitive input of all characters in the fonts. Complete instructions are included in the User's Manual included with the product.

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Windows Me/98/95: The fonts alone may be installed into Windows Me/98/95, but the keyboard files do not install into or work in Windows Me/98/95. This means you may install the Unicode-compatible fonts into Windows Me/98/95 and open files that were created in Windows XP/2000/NT using the fonts if you have a compatible, Unicode-enabled program, such as Microsoft Word 2002/2000/97. In Windows Me/98/95 you will be able to edit documents that use these fonts in several ways. In Word 2002 you may use Insert Symbol or a built-in hot key feature to insert Unicode characters. In Word 2000/97 you may use Insert Symbol or the Linguist’s Software Word template included with the product. This template includes a macro which duplicates most of the features of the hot key feature built into Word 2002. Using these methods you can input characters one at a time in Windows Me/98/95. These input methods are not as easy as using the keyboard driver in Windows XP/2000/NT (see above), but are adequate for small editing projects. Complete instructions are included in the User's Manual included with the product.

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Windows 3.x: This product does not install into or work with Windows 3.x.

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Printer: The fonts will print to any Windows printer at the highest quality allowed by your printer.

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Documentation: All documentation, including a Setup Manual, a User's Manual, and Keyboard Layout Charts (showing placement of the characters on the keys), is in Adobe Acrobat™ PDF format, and is installed to the Windows Start menu for easy access. Users may view the documentation on screen or print it, using Acrobat Reader, available free online if you do not already have it.

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Converting files from LaserArmenian to LaserArmenianU: The LaserArmenian  Converter will soon be available to convert LaserArmenian (ASCII-encoded) Word files to the LaserArmenianU fonts.

Cost: US$ 99.95 (Coming Soon)
(Please check back later or contact us if you would like us to notify you when it is ready.)

Samples

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TransCyrillic in Unicode for MacintoshLaserArmenian in Unicode for Macintosh
LaserArmenian in Unicode for Macintosh includes four keyboard layouts for use in Mac OS X 10.2.8 or higher. The keyboards support 1) the Eastern Armenian standard, 2) the Western Armenian standard, 3) a phonetic Armenian keyboard layout (based on the US keyboard), and 4) an English keyboard providing access to the transliteration symbols needed to transliterate Armenian. The ArmenianLSU font uses OpenType technology to properly position every letter shape with the diacritics.

Macintosh System Requirements:
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Mac OS X 10.2.8 (Jaguar) or higher

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Any Unicode-compatible application, such as Word 2004 or Mellel.

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Mellel is required to take advantage of the OpenType features of the ArmenianLSU font.

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The only Macintosh applications we are aware of that support Unicode at this time are Microsoft Word 2004, Nisus Writer Express, InDesign CS, TextEdit (included with Mac OS X), Mellel, Oxygen, BBEdit, and OpenOffice. We have only tested the fonts in Mellel, Word 2004, Nisus Writer Express and TextEdit. (If you are aware of additional applications please let us know.)

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Even applications that claim to be Unicode and OpenType compliant may only support a limited range of Unicode characters or a limited set of OpenType features. Contact Linguist's Software about compatibility questions and about the availability of a non-Unicode version of this product that works in all applications.

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These fonts are compatible with the Windows version of LaserArmenian in Unicode. No conversion of files is necessary when transferring files to Windows if your applications are fully Unicode-aware and compatible fonts are installed on both systems.

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Converting files from LaserArmenian to LaserArmenianU: The LaserArmenian  Converter will convert LaserArmenian (ASCII-encoded) Word files to the LaserArmenianU fonts.

Cost: US$ 99.95 Order

Samples

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For a non-Unicode version, available for both Windows and Macintosh, see:

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The non-Unicode font in LaserArmenian is not interchangeable with LaserArmenian in Unicode. Both Unicode and non-Unicode fonts, including Unicode and non-Unicode versions of LaserArmenian, may be installed on your system (since they have different file and font names) and may even be used in the same files. They are not, however, interchangeable.

If your project requires you to work in software that is not Unicode-compatible, such as QuarkXPress or PageMaker, you must use the non-Unicode LaserArmenian font instead of LaserArmenian in Unicode.

Do you have LaserArmenian (ASCII-encoded) documents you need to convert to the new Unicode-encoded fonts in LaserArmenian in Unicode? See the LaserArmenian  Converter for a simple solution for converting your old documents to these new fonts. (Note: It is not possible to convert text backwards, from Unicode-encoding to the non-Unicode-encoding of LaserArmenian.)

 

 

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