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right to left Arabic and Persian with proper line wrap, full justification, automatic
contextualization of consonants, and proper positioning of vowels and diacritic marks as you type.
LaserArabic & Farsi in Unicode for Windows or
Macintosh includes right-to-left, Unicode-encoded, TrueType®
OpenType™ fonts in 4 typestyles with all characters and
diacritics for standard modern Arabic and Persian (not Koranic Arabic), plus
English and other west European (Latin 1) languages. Four additional fonts
allow the user to emulate texts that do not include dots on the regular
consonants.
LateefiLSU
KitabiLSU
NargisiLSU
SarmastLSU
Each of the above fonts has a corresponding font with "NoDots" that
allows the user to emulate texts that do not include dots on the regular
consonants.
LateefiNoDotsLSU
KitabiNoDotsLSU
NargisiNoDotsLSU
SarmastNoDotsLSU
The fonts also support Persian.
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KitabiLSU |
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SarmastLSU |
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Users can
type right to left with proper line wrap and full justification of Arabic and Persian text. The
fonts include OpenType™ layout features that provide automatic
contextualization of consonants and proper positioning of vowels and
diacritic marks as you type. The
user may switch back and forth between Arabic, Persian, English, and the other
supported Latin languages simply by toggling between the included Arabic,
Persian, and
English keyboard drivers, without changing fonts.
When you select the Arabic or Persian keyboard, input will automatically be right to
left. When you select the English keyboard, the input direction will
automatically change to left to right. Users may combine Arabic or Persian with text
from any other language supported by your computer's Operating System. All
this can be done with your regular physical keyboard. You do not need to buy
a special keyboard to use the LaserArabic & Farsi in Unicode fonts.
The Unicode encoding of these fonts means the Windows and
Macintosh fonts are completely compatible. Documents may be freely exchanged
between Windows and Macintosh users, with no conversion or special handling
necessary, as long as the fonts are installed and each user has a compatible
application. (Please be sure you understand the System Requirements for
Windows and
Macintosh before you order.)
Languages supported by LaserArabic & Farsi in Unicode for Windows and
Macintosh:
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Macintosh product.
LaserArabic & Farsi in Unicode for Windows
LaserArabic & Farsi in Unicode for Windows provides high-quality, Unicode-encoded
Arabic and Persian fonts (described
above) in TrueType® format for standard modern
Arabic and Persian,
for typing right to left with proper line wrap and full justification. The
fonts include OpenType layout features that provide automatic
contextualization of consonants and proper positioning of vowels and diacritic marks as you type.
The fonts make use of
the OpenType shaping engine (Uniscribe) built into Windows 7, Vista,
and XP. The fonts do not include the distinctive symbols of Koranic Arabic. LaserArabic &
Farsi in Unicode
for Windows includes six keyboard layouts that provide four-characters-per-key input
(instead of the normal two). Three of the
keyboards support Arabic; two support Persian; and one supports English and
the other Latin 1 languages supported by the fonts.
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The ArabicLSU Qwerty keyboard layout is a
phonetic layout with the Arabic sounds matched to the English (US)
keyboard as closely as possible. This keyboard also supports Persian. |
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The ArabicLSU Standard keyboard layout closely
matches the Arabic (101) keyboard in Windows, but differs because it
also supports Persian. |
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The ArabicLSU Azerty keyboard layout
closely matches the Arabic AZERTY (French) keyboard in Windows, but
differs because it also supports Persian. |
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The FarsiLSU Qwerty keyboard layout is
a phonetic layout with the Persian sounds matched to the English
(US) keyboard as closely as possible. This keyboard also supports
Arabic. |
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The FarsiLSU Standard keyboard layout
closely matches the Persian keyboard in Windows, but differs because
it also supports Arabic. |
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The EnglishLS OT keyboard layout allows the user to type
English and other western Latin-based languages easily. It allows the user to
toggle from one of the ArabicLSU or FarsiLSU keyboards into the EnglishLS
OT keyboard
and type English, French, German, Spanish, etc., without changing
fonts. |
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Click this link for a pop-up window showing these
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Windows System Requirements:
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Requires Windows 7, Vista, or XP |
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Requires installation into Windows of
Arabic supplemental language
support in Windows XP. This requires your original Windows
XP installation
CD. Our Setup Instructions provide
instructions for installing this Windows feature. (This
feature is built in to Windows 7 and Vista, and does not
need to be installed.) |
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This product will not work in any earlier version of
Windows (2000/NT/Me/98/95/3.x). |
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Requires Microsoft Word
2010, 2007, or 2003, or
LibreOffice 3.3,
OpenOffice 3.2, or
Lotus Symphony 3, or
another Unicode-aware and OpenType-compatible application
that similarly handles Arabic. |
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LibreOffice,
OpenOffice, and
Lotus Symphony are free office suites available for
download. Always download and install the latest version. |
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At this
time we know of no other programs, including
QuarkXPress 7.0, or the Universal English versions of InDesign
and Illustrator, that support the
OpenType features in these fonts, even though these programs
are Unicode-compatible and support some OpenType features.
There may be other software designed for Arabic that does
support the OpenType features of the LaserArabic & Farsi in
Unicode for Windows fonts. If you discover any program that does support these
features, please contact us. |
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The fonts will print to any Windows printer at the highest quality allowed by
the printer. |
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All documentation, including a User's
Manual, the Keyboard Layout Charts (showing placement of the
characters on the keys), and a Troubleshooting Manual, is in Adobe® Acrobat™ PDF
format, and is installed into 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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Files created with these fonts are compatible with the
Macintosh
version of
LaserArabic & Farsi in Unicode. No conversion of files is necessary
when transferring files to the Macintosh if the system and application requirements are
met on both computers. |
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LaserArabic & Farsi in Unicode for Windows
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current version number and a Release History.
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 LaserArabic
& Farsi in
Unicode for Macintosh
LaserArabic & Farsi in Unicode for Macintosh provides high-quality, Unicode-encoded
Arabic and Persian fonts (described
above) in TrueType® format for standard modern
Arabic and Persian,
for typing right to left with proper line wrap and full justification (in
Mellel, sold separately). The
fonts include OpenType layout features which provide automatic
contextualization of consonants and proper positioning of vowels and diacritic marks as you type.
The fonts do not include the distinctive symbols of Koranic Arabic. LaserArabic & Farsi in Unicode
for Macintosh includes five keyboard layouts. There are three Arabic keyboard layouts—one
phonetic (based on the English keyboard), one Standard (based on the
Macintosh Arabic layout), and an additional Arabic phonetic keyboard based
on the French Azerty layout. There are two Persian keyboard layouts—one
phonetic based on the English layout, and one Standard, based on the
Macintosh Persian layout. The user can switch between English and Arabic, or
English and Persian, by pressing the caps lock key. See this link for a pop-up window showing the
keyboard layouts.
Macintosh System Requirements:
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Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. |
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| Applications
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Requires Mellel,
sold separately. |
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Even applications that claim to be Unicode
and OpenType compliant (e.g., QuarkXPress 7.0 or InDesign) 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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All documentation, including a User's
Manual and Keyboard Layout Charts (showing placement of the
characters on the keys) is in Adobe® Acrobat™ PDF
format. 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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Files created with these fonts are compatible with the
Windows
version of LaserArabic & Farsi in Unicode. No conversion of files is
necessary when transferring files to Windows if the system
and application requirements are met on both computers. |
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Purchase Now
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LaserArabic & Farsi in Unicode for Macintosh
$99.95
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Mellel
$25
Order ($25
when ordered with this Macintosh product, $38 sold separately.) |
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Also available for use with LaserArabic & Farsi in Unicode for Windows
or Macintosh:
Also Available: Non-Unicode Arabic and Persian Fonts
For non-Unicode versions of our Arabic and Persian fonts, available for both Windows
and Macintosh, see:
The LaserArabic & Farsi non-Unicode fonts are not interchangeable with
LaserArabic & Farsi in Unicode fonts. However, both Unicode and
non-Unicode versions of LaserArabic & Farsi may be
installed on your system (since they have different file and font names)
and may even be used in the same documents. The value of the
non-Unicode-encoded LaserArabic & Farsi product is the fonts may be used
in applications that do not support the OpenType features of LaserArabic
& Farsi in Unicode. Note, however, non-Unicode LaserArabic & Farsi does
not support right-to-left input.
Also Available: Related Font Products
Also Available: Keyboard Stickers
| Available from Latkey in various colors - Arabic Keyboard Stickers for
the modern Arabic layout. (This link will
open a new window.) |
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