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Asalam-o-alekum friends,

PakType fonts version 9.0 are released supporting Unicode version 17.

The webfonts are hosted at www.karachvi.com. Please checkout the project page to see how to embed these fonts without hosting on your webserver:
http://paktype.sourceforge.net/

Source code can be downloaded from:
https://paktype.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/paktype/Fonts/

Features:
Supports following code pages in Unicode 17:... read more

Asalam-o-alekum friends,

PakType fonts version 7.0 are released supporting Unicode version 14.

Source code can be found at:
http://paktype.sourceforge.net/
https://paktype.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/paktype/Fonts/

Features:
Supports following code pages in Unicode 14:

• Arabic (0600 - 06FF)
• Arabic Supplement (0750 - 077F)
• Arabic Extended-A (08A0 - 08FF)
• Arabic Extended-B (0870 - 089F)
• Arabic Presentation Forms-A (FD40-FD4F, FDCF - FDFF)
• Basic Latin (0000 - 007F)
• Latin-1 Supplement (0080 - 00FF)
• General Punctuation (2000 - 206F)
• Currency Symbols (20A0 - 20CF)
• Letter-like Symbols (2103, 2109, 2116, 2117, 211E, 2120, 2121, 2122, 2138)... read more

Asalam-o-alekum friends,
I have just released an update to all PakType fonts. Now you can use all number supporting symbols properly. These symbols include:

• Arabic Number Sign (0600)
• Arabic Sign Sanah (0601)
• Arabic Footnote Marker (0602)
• Arabic Sign Safha (0603)
• Arabic Sign Samvat (0604)

PakType fonts support all Arabic code pages in Unicode 13 with complete support of all Quranic marks and both End of Aya symbols (disputed and non-disputed), with numbers and marks.... read more

Alhamdulillah - I have perpared Unicode based text of Quran kareem in Pakistani (Indo-pak) script and Uthmani scripts in HTML5 format.

Pakistani Mushaf Github Repo: https://github.com/lateef-shaikh/pakistani-mushaf

Uthmani Mushaf Github Repo: https://github.com/lateef-shaikh/uthmani-mushaf

Uploaded at: https://www.karachvi.com/quran/pakistani/
https://www.karachvi.com/quran/uthmani/

Font with VOLT project: http://paktype.sourceforge.net/download.php... read more

Asalam-o-alekum friends,

New PakType deployment package has been released. Following changes have been made to the fonts:

Release Updates:

• 5 new currency shapes 20BB - 20BF
• 10 new Arabic alphabets 08BE - 08C7
• 1 new mark 08D3
• medial and final shape for Farsi yeh with three dots above 063F
• correct init and medi shape for Noon with three dots above 06BD
• Laam Alef for laam with tuai 08C7
• For Barri Yeh - medial and initial shape for Farsi yeh with three dots above 063F
• For Barri Yeh - medial and initial shape for Noon with three dots above 06BD
• For Barri Yeh - new alphabets 08BE - 08C7... read more

Asalam-o-alekum friends,

New PakType deployment package has been released. Following changes have been made to the fonts:

Release Updates:

• I was working on Quranic marks (ramooz-e-auqaaf) for sometime and finally got it all working. However, Internet Explorer is still not supporting these characters properly. Ideal browsers are Firefox and Google Chrome (which both use Hurfbuzz and therefore have identical / same great results.... read more

Hi All,
PakType fonts version 5.0 deployment package is released. This release contains following additions:

• Support of complete Unicode Arabic ranges in version 9.0, including Pakistani Quranic Marks

Download Location:
You can download Deployment packages from following link without any log in:
http://paktype.sourceforge.net/

If you are a member of PakType Yahoo! group, you can also download the files from following link using your Yahoo! log in:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/paktype/files/PakType%20Fonts/
Regards,
Lateef Sagar Shaikh

Hi All,
PakType's new font deployment package is released. This release contains following additions:

1. Support of Samvat character (Ux0604)
2. Support of Arabic Extended A block (Ux08A0 - Ux08FF)

Download Location:
You can download Deployment packages from following link without any log in:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/paktype/

If you are a member of PakType Yahoo! group, you can also download the files from following link using your Yahoo! log in:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/paktype/files/PakType%20Fonts/... read more

PakType Ajrak 2.0 has been released and following ranges are added to the font:

• Basic Latin (0000 - 007F)
• Latin-1 Supplement (0080 - 00FF)
• General Punctuation (2000 - 206F)
• Currency Symbols (20A0 - 20CF)
• Letterlike Symbols (2103, 2109, 2116, 2117, 211E, 2120, 2121, 2122, 2138)

PakType Naqsh 3.0 has been released and following ranges are added to the font:

• Basic Latin (0000 - 007F)
• Latin-1 Supplement (0080 - 00FF)
• General Punctuation (2000 - 206F)
• Currency Symbols (20A0 - 20CF)
• Letterlike Symbols (2103, 2109, 2116, 2117, 211E, 2120, 2121, 2122, 2138)

PakType Naskh Basic 3.0 has been updated and following ranges are added to the font:

• Basic Latin (0000 - 007F)
• Latin-1 Supplement (0080 - 00FF)
• General Punctuation (2000 - 206F)
• Currency Symbols (20A0 - 20CF)
• Letterlike Symbols (2103, 2109, 2116, 2117, 211E, 2120, 2121, 2122, 2138)

PakType Tehreer 2.0 has been updated and following character ranges has been added to the font:

• Basic Latin (0000 - 007F)
• Latin-1 Supplement (0080 - 00FF)
• General Punctuation (2000 - 206F)
• Currency Symbols (20A0 - 20CF)
• Letterlike Symbols (2103, 2109, 2116, 2117, 211E, 2120, 2121, 2122, 2138)

PakType Tehreer 2.0 Released

Following changes have been made to PakType Naskh Basic fonts:
11-03-2008
Fixed Bugs:

• Corrected initial shape of Goal Hai before various characters
• Added Initial and Medial shape of Noon Ghunna
• Corrected Ligature: Laam + High Hamza (675)

11-06-2008

• Changed Version to 2.1
  Enhancements:
• Changed Shape of Short Meem and Sindhi Kaaf (6AA)
• Changed width of Space to 500
• Changed Shape of Urdu digit Seven
• Changed spacing between digits in Shumar and Safha symbols
• Changed Mark position above Alef (Isolated and Final)