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अगर आपको यह ठीक तरह से दिखाई दे रहा है, तो dynamic fonts काम कर रहे हैं।
In order to create web
pages in Indian languages, the fonts need to be delivered
to the local machines. This can be done using various
mechanisms, such as -
- Manual
download
- Automatic
download
- Dynamic
delivery
Manual Download: This is an elementary mechanism, wherein the user is
supposed to download and install the fonts, which allow
the user to view the pages. This process is cumbersome
and most often becomes a reason for fewer hits on the
website.
Automatic Download: This is a refined version of the manual download, where
the user downloads a compact file, which installs by
itself on the local machine.
Dynamic Delivery: To overcome the shortcomings of the preceding methods,
which give an open invitation to virus attack owing
to physical download, a new mechanism has been devised.
With this mechanism, physical download becomes unnecessary.
The font information is available only when the relevant
page is being visited. The Indian language content becomes
as accessible as the English content to the Internet
page visitor.
More on Dynamic
fonts
Two technologies are available
to support dynamic delivery. These are:
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Portable Font Resource
(PFR) - This is based on the web font technology
from Bit Stream. PFR is closely coupled with Netscape
browsers (4.03 and above) while it also performs
well with Internet Explorer (Ver 4.0 and above).
In Internet Explorer however, only a one-time download
of a control on the client's machine is allowed.
The dynamic font generated will have the extension
as .pfr.
PFRs also have the URL security and can be locked
to particular URLs. PFRs need Encoding changes in
Internet Explorer 5.0. Occasionally in IE 5.0 the
user need to make the encoding as 'User Defined'
to view the page properly.
-
Embedded Open Type
(EOT) - Microsoft's Web Embedding Font Technology
(WEFT) is used to generate EOT information. EOTs
are best suited for Internet Explorer (IE 4.0 and
above). Netscape browsers do not support EOTs.
The dynamic font generated has the extension as
.eot. If there is a link to an EOT on a page, then
the browser uses these EOTs to display the page
with specified fonts. EOTs have specific URL roots
so that only specified Web sites can use specific
EOTs suitable to them. Once an EOT is prepared it
is locked to that URL. The same EOT cannot be reused
for some other site.
Note: Any True Type Font can be converted to a
Dynamic Font. PFR and EOT can co-exist on a single website.
The Browser will sense the dynamic font and accordingly
display the content. The content can be created using
LEAP or ISM range of software from GIST.
Hindi sample file
Bengali
sample file
Oriya
sample file
Assamese
sample file
Tamil
sample file
Malayalam
sample file
Punjabi
sample file
Telugu
sample file
Gujarati
sample file
Kannada
sample file
Troubleshooting: If
you are using Internet Explorer and can't see the text
properly, please click YES on the pop-up window that
opened on your browser?
TERMS OF USE:
THE CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTING (C-DAC)
SHALL PUT ALL EFFORTS IN MAKING THE DYNAMIC FONTS AVAILABLE
ON THE SERVER. HOWEVER, IN NO EVENT SHALL C-DAC BE LIABLE
FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT
OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE DESCRIBED HERE.
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