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LaserArabic & Farsi^® in Unicode

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Now get the beautiful LaserArabic & Farsi fonts in a Unicode-encoded version!	for Windows
	for Macintosh
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Type 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.

LateefiLSU	KitabiLSU
NargisiLSU	SarmastLSU

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:

Afrikaans	Dutch	Icelandic	Portuguese
Arabic	English	Indonesian	Spanish
Basque	Finnish	Italian	Swedish
Catalan	French	Norwegian	plus additional languages
Danish	German	Persian	covered by code page 1252

Read here about the Windows product, or scroll down for the 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 10, 8, 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.

• 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.
• The ArabicLSU Standard keyboard layout closely matches the Arabic (101) keyboard in Windows, but differs because it also supports Persian.
• The ArabicLSU Azerty keyboard layout closely matches the Arabic AZERTY (French) keyboard in Windows, but differs because it also supports Persian.
• 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.
• The FarsiLSU Standard keyboard layout closely matches the Persian keyboard in Windows, but differs because it also supports Arabic.
• 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.

Click this link for a pop-up window showing these six keyboard layouts.

Windows System Requirements:

• Operating Systems
1. Requires Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, or XP
2. 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 10, 8, 7 and Vista, and does not need to be installed.)
3. This product will not work in any earlier version of Windows (2000/NT/Me/98/95/3.x).
• Applications
1. Requires Microsoft Word 2013, 2010, 2007, or 2003, or LibreOffice 3.3 or newer, or OpenOffice 3.2 or newer, or another Unicode-aware and OpenType-compatible application that similarly handles Arabic.
2. LibreOffice and OpenOffice are free office suites available for download. Always download and install the latest version.
3. 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.
• Notes
1. The fonts will print to any Windows printer at the highest quality allowed by the printer.
2. 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.
3. 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.

LaserArabic & Farsi in Unicode for Windows $99.95 Order

Do you need to upgrade? Check the current version number and a Release History.

 

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:

• Operating Systems
1. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
• Applications
1. Requires Mellel, sold separately.
2. 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.
• Notes
1. 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.
2. 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.

LaserArabic & Farsi in Unicode for Macintosh $99.95 Order

Mellel $25 Order ($25 when ordered with this Macintosh product, $38 sold separately.)

Also Available

Also available for use with LaserArabic & Farsi in Unicode for Windows or Macintosh:

• Semitic Transliterator in Unicode for Windows or Macintosh, for transliteration of Semitic languages and Greek.
• LaserCoptic in Unicode for Windows or Macintosh
• LaserAmharic in Unicode for Windows or Macintosh
• LaserGreek in Unicode for Windows or Macintosh
• LaserHebrew 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:

• LaserArabic & Farsi
• 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

• Archaic Alphabets
• LaserAkkadian
• LaserSabean
• LaserSyriac
• LaserUgaritic

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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