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right to left Pashto, Arabic, and Persian with proper line wrap, full justification, automatic
contextualization of consonants, and proper positioning of vowels and diacritic marks as you type.
LaserPashto 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 Pashto, Arabic, and Persian (not Koranic
Arabic), plus English and other west European (Latin 1) languages.
LateefiPashtoLSU
KitabiPashtoLSU
NargisiPashtoLSU
SarmastPashtoLSU
The fonts also support Persian.
| LateefiPashtoLSU |
KitabiPashtoLSU |
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| NargisiPashtoLSU |
SarmastPashtoLSU |
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Users can
type right to left with proper line wrap and full justification of Pashto, 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 Pashto, Arabic, Persian, English, and the other
supported Latin languages simply by toggling between the included Pashto, Arabic,
Persian, and
English keyboard drivers, without changing fonts.
When you select one of the Pashto, Arabic or Persian keyboards, 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 Pashto, Arabic, and 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 LaserPashto 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 each user owns the fonts and has a compatible
application. (Please be sure you understand the System Requirements for
Windows and
Macintosh before you order.)
Languages supported by LaserPashto in Unicode for Windows and
Macintosh:
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Macintosh product.
LaserPashto in Unicode for Windows
LaserPashto in Unicode for Windows provides high-quality, Unicode-encoded
Pashto, Arabic, and Persian fonts (described
above) in TrueType® format for standard modern
Pashto, 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, Windows Vista,
Windows XP and
Windows 2000. The fonts do not include the distinctive symbols of Koranic Arabic. LaserPashto in Unicode
for Windows includes five keyboard layouts that provide
four-characters-per-key input (instead of the normal two). Two of the
keyboards support Pashto; one supports Arabic; one supports Persian; and one supports English and
the other Latin 1 languages supported by the fonts.
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The PashtoLSU Phonetic keyboard layout is a
phonetic layout with the Pashto sounds matched to the English (US)
keyboard as closely as possible. |
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The PashtoLSU Standard keyboard layout
closely matches the Pashto (Afghanistan) keyboard in Windows. Some
characters not supported by Windows have been added. |
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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 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 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 Pashto, Arabic, or Persian 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, Windows Vista, Windows XP, or Windows 2000
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Requires installation into Windows XP and
2000 of
Arabic supplemental language
support. This requires your original Windows XP or 2000 installation
or Recovery CD. Our Setup Instructions provide
instructions for installing this Windows feature.
(Supplemental Language Support is built into Windows 7 and
Vista, and does not need to be added separately.) |
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This product will not work in any earlier version of
Windows (NT/Me/98/95/3.x). |
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Requires Microsoft Word 2007, Word 2003 or
Word 2002 or
another Unicode-aware and OpenType-compatible application
that similarly handles Arabic.
No version of WordPerfect (tested through v12), no version of QuarkXPress (through
v6.5), no version of FrameMaker, and no version of PageMaker
will support LaserPashto in Unicode for
Windows. |
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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 Pashto that does
support the OpenType features of the LaserPashto in
Unicode for Windows fonts. If you discover any program that does support these
features, please contact us. |
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Microsoft Works users:
Note that Microsoft Works does not include Word.
Microsoft Works Suite does include Word 2002. If you
use Microsoft Works, be sure you own Works Suite and
you have Word 2002 installed.
LaserPashto in Unicode for
Windows fonts do not work in the Works word processor; you
must have Microsoft Word 2002, 2003, or 2007. |
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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
LaserPashto 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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 LaserPashto in
Unicode for Macintosh
LaserPashto in Unicode for Macintosh provides high-quality, Unicode-encoded
Pashto, Arabic, and Persian fonts (described
above) in TrueType® format for standard modern
Pashto, 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. LaserPashto in Unicode
for Macintosh includes five keyboard layouts. There are two Pashto
keyboards—one phonetic based on the English (US)
keyboard, and one Standard based on the Macintosh Pashto layout.
There is one Arabic phonetic keyboard layout
based on the English (US) keyboard, and one Persian phonetic keyboard layout based on the English
(US) layout. The user can switch between English and Pashto, 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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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 LaserPashto 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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LaserPashto in Unicode for Macintosh
$99.95
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Mellel
$25
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when ordered with this Macintosh product, $38 sold separately.) |
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Also available for use with LaserPashto in Unicode for Windows
or Macintosh:
Also Available: Non-Unicode Pashto, Arabic, and Persian Fonts
For non-Unicode versions of our Pashto, Arabic, and Persian fonts, available for both Windows
and Macintosh, see:
The LaserPashto non-Unicode fonts are not interchangeable with
LaserPashto in Unicode fonts. However, both Unicode and
non-Unicode versions of LaserPashto 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 LaserPashto product is the fonts may be used
in applications that do not support the OpenType features of LaserPashto in Unicode. Note, however, non-Unicode LaserPashto does
not support right-to-left input.
Also Available: Related Font Products
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