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April 2012 Year : 2 Vol : 6. New Devnagari, Gujarati, Tamil. Fonts Designed by ...
Modular Forum April 2012 Year : 2 Vol : 6
New Devnagari, Gujarati, Tamil Fonts Designed by Modular
Editors Mrs. M. R. Joshi (Technical Director) Mr. A. N. Deokar (General Manager) Contact us at :
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From the Editor’s Desk “What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.” - Vern McLellan Well, the new business year 2012-13 starts, and as in the calendar year beginning, we are equally hopeful about the new business year – with a difference! The personal new year resolutions are generally made for breaking, whereas we make business plans in the beginning of the year, and..... In the forthcoming year, Modular Shree-Lipi marketing and support group is planning to reach maximum customers by conducting customer clinics in a large number of cities / towns / district or taluka places. Through this Modular Forum, we are answering all the questions that reach us. Now we want to visit maximum places to meet face-to-face with our customers. If you are a sizeable group of Shree-Lipi customers in your town, and are interested in having a customer clinic, do write to us indicating the number of people that could attend the clinic. If you have any topic in mind that you want us to explain more, do let us know. So let us see if you are one of those whom our team members will be meeting this year. Wish You a Successful and Prosperous New Business Year! Meena Joshi
Avishkar ( Font Utility from Shree-Lipi Package) Avishkar is a Font Modification / Generation utility, in which you can apply changes to the font and can create a new font of your own choice. Avishkar applies various transformations to a given font and generates a font which can be used in any Windows application. The type of transformation and the degree of transformation can be specified by the individual control buttons / edit boxes. It is not possible to Generate SLX (EX) font, Decorative and Unicode fonts using Avishkar.
size. To match the sizes of both fonts you will have to use lower point size for English text. This changing of point sizes can become operationally very tedious. It is therefore suggested to scale the English font down and use this scaled font in your application so that the text height of both fonts will appear same. For deciding the scale you may use ‘Scale+’ or ‘Scale-’ buttons or even better enter the value in the edit-box. Examples of various font effects
Different Variations supported in Avishkar
Scale Font
The various options provided with the Avishkar package are given below ?
Scale the characters
^maV ^maV
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Condense the characters
Condense Font
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Expand the characters
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Forward or reverse slant the characters
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Make the characters fatter (to give a bold like effect)
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Make the characters thinner
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Make outline characters
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Make the outline graded
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Give envelope effect to the characters
Of the above effects, we would like to explain Scale Font further since it has a typical use. Scale Font This option is primarily provided to scale down a font so as to make it ‘match’ fonts of other languages. Most of the time you come across a situation where you want to intermix text of English with the text of Indian language. Due to the differences in the Cap heights of both fonts, English font of the same point size as Indian language font appears bigger in
Expand Font
^maV Forward / Reverse Slant Font
^maV ^maV Fat Font
^maV
Thin Font
How to Generate Windows Metafile (.WMF)
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This menu option allows you to generate a graphic file (.WMF) for the characters seen on the screen. This option is useful when you don’t want to generate the entire font for the selected transformations and want to generate a picture file of limited characters which you can then import in your application. The metafile with file extension of .WMF and the name given by you will be created in the directory of your choice. This is useful when you do not want to create the entire font.
How to Generate Font for a specific parameter
FAQs
Before generating output font it is necessary to perform all the settings of the transformations. You then should specify the output font name. This is done by going to the main menu option ‘Output Font’. After all these settings you may click on ‘Make’ button on lower right side corner or use the main menu option ‘Make Font’. A progress-bar will appear showing the progress of the font generation process. Avishkar will directly install the generated font in ATM as well as Windows in shree70 folder with the name given by you. The fonts can be installed by using Font installation option through Windows.
I want to generate a Type-1 font but Avishkar is generating True-Type fonts only -
Outline Font
If you are generating the font from Avishkar & source font type is True Type then it will generate the True Type font only, if the source font is Type-1 format then Avishkar will generate Type-1 font only. Can I save the Sample and Modified text in Avishkar? Yes, you can save the Sample and Modified text as WMF (Windows Meta File) format, which can be imported in any application. This is a useful feature if you do not want to create font for any particular parameter.
Interview Brief Information About Mr. Mangesh Karandikar Mr. Mangesh Karandikar is working with Department of Communication and Journalism in University of Mumbai. He is Ex-HOD of that department. He is student of zoology and after completing PG, worked with Pharmaceutical Company as a Sales Representative. In early nineties he had started business of graphic designing and printing. Side by side started programming, web designing, multimedia designing. At present he is conducting research on electronic media and pursuing doctorate degree Other hobbies are playing mouth-organ, flute and synthesizer. Trekking, making acrylics and using clay and poster.
Mr. Mangesh Karandikar Since when are you using Shree-Lipi? Since 1992-93 Can you highlight any feature of Shree-Lipi, which you liked most and why? A wide choice of fonts. Also the fonts are beautiful. Feedback about the support received from the Company Have generally received good support What is importance of Good Looking fonts in Media(Newspaper)? Good looking fonts help in catching the attention of the reader. They also help in making the overall page design look good. Feedback about Shree-Lipi software Have been a Shri-Lipi user for many years. I think I have been using it from the time it was Shri-Lipi 1.0. The pace at which the fonts and the software has been developed is great. I was very happy that you developed Mac based software too, because of which I got 20 mac based licenses and they are working fine. My students are extremely happy to use it because it gives them good looking fonts for their assignments. And Of course other views also. - You need to find a different way to prevent piracy. Sometimes the use of the USB Lock is cumbersome. However, you must put some faith on your regular customers. I was asked to pay extra amount because I had to change my hard drive (When I had an older version and had to upgrade my hard drive thrice). Overall I am extremely happy with the software and intend to keep using it.
About cover page Samples Created by using new fonts designed by Modular's Font Team
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Shrikant, Malegaon
Thanks for sending the newsletter. I am using this software for last many years. Proud to be part of Shree-Lipi family. Wish u all a Happy Gudhipadwa.
Shree-Lipi is best for reginal DTP. I am user of Shree-Lipi from 1989.
Tips and Tricks for Shree-Lipi Why to suggest Shree-Lipi instead of Ankur 2.0 for users doing bookwork In Ankur only 10 fonts of Hindi / Marathi are supplied, While in Shree Lipi 7.2 More than 1000 fonts of Hindi/Marathi are available. For other scripts also, 4 fonts are available in Ankur while in Shree-Lipi many times more fonts are available. This helps to do quality book work /advertisement work. In Shree Lipi 7.2 Spellchecker, Smart backspace, Validation Matra is available, While Spellchecker, Smart backspace, Validation Matra features are not available in Ankur. For making bookwork these features are very useful.
Tips and Tricks for Windows and Applications Many times your DVD drive may not be found by Windows 7, even if it is visible in the BIOS and using the standard driver. Click on Start option and slecet run - type Disk Management and choose the "Create and format hard disk partitions" link. If your optical drive is visible here then right-click it, select Change Drive Letter and Paths, click Change and choose a new letter. If the drive is now visible in Explorer, then repeat the process to change the drive letter back; if it's still not visible, reboot and it should appear.
No Upgrade or additional site license option is available for Ankur, user can upgrade or get additional site License for Shree-Lipi package (price for additional site license is lesser than main license)
New Members joining Modular family Govt. Braille Press, Guwahati (Assam) - A) Shree-Lipi Braille B) Braille Mitra ( Braille Text Reader ) C) High Speed Braille Embosser D) Double sided interpoint Braille Embosser Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University, Nasik Shree-Lipi Dev Ratna and Additional Site License Safechem Industries, Kolkata - Shree-Lipi Banga Ratna and Additional language Dinamalar, Chennai - Shree-Lipi Tamil Vairam Additional Site Licenses Sardar Patel University, VallabhVidyanagar - Shree-Lipi Gurjari Additional Site Licenses Multimedia Features Pvt. Ltd., Aurangabad - Shree-Lipi Dev Ratna Additional Site Licenses Popular Printers, Jaipur - Shree-Lipi Dev Ratna Upgrade and Additional Site Licenses Oceanic Pharmachem Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai - Shree-Lipi Dev Ratna Vodafone Spacetel Ltd., Guwahati - Shree-Lipi Ashamiya Exsem India Krishi Bikash Ltd., Kolkata - Shree-Lipi Banga Ratna and Additional Site Licenses Kamnath Mudranalaya - Shree-Lipi Gurjari Additional Site Licenses
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