The Free Bangla Fonts Project is a volunteer run project dedicated for creating Free, high quality, completely Unicode compliant OpenType™ Bengali fonts. This project aims to be the central resource for getting and developing Free Bangla fonts. The initial aim of this project is to release a full set of Bangla fonts that supports all the major Bangla juktakhars (conjuncts). We also plan to convert the other existing Free Bangla (non Unicode compliant) fonts into Unicode compliant Bengali OpenType™ fonts.

Aug 12, 2014 - The Linotype Bengali typeface for digital typesetting was designed at the. Texts with is Summit Geetanjali (§ 3.4); they have several versions of it that. Bengali no.2, in light and bold (figure 3.6), that was approved.

The project works as as a sub-project of the initiative. Aims of The Project Standards compliance We aim to be 100% compliant with the existing Unicode 4.1.0 standard. We also strictly follow the Microsoft OpenType™ specifications, and we aim to release a font which would be compliant with the juktakhar standards released by the Bangladesh Bangla Academy and the Pashchim Banga Bangla Academy. High Quality We aim for quality, in terms of good looking glyphs and as well as in terms of extensive OpenType™ tables which handle all the Bangla juktakshars that are in use today. Free Software Our policy is to work only on Free (sometimes referred to as Open Source) fonts, so that the results of our work can be freely shared by all.

Free Software is about empowering users, and about granting them rights over the software they use. Volunteering for The Project Since this is a volunteer run project, we are always on the lookout for volunteers willing to donate their time. There are a number of jobs that have to be done, like converting existing fonts into OpenType™, writing documents, beta testing, etc. If you are interested in helping out, please see the page for details.

Moreover, if you are an experienced font developer, you may join the project as an adviser. If you would like to help out in that way, then please do join the mailing lists and announce yourself. Also, if you have designed Bangla fonts, you may consider donating your work to this project. It does not matter what encoding that font uses, since we will just use the glyphs, and create Free Unicode compliant fonts out of that. And of course, you will be mentioned in the CREDITS list, and in the, and you will be retaining the copyright of the fonts glyphs under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.

Geetanjali to Unicode Geetanjali2Unicode v1.0 Geetanjali (Ramdhenu) to Unicode (UTF-8) Converter The Geetanjali font is widely used font in print houses. The Geetanjali to Unicode converter has been written with the primary intention of being able to create Assamese Unicode text conveniently. The authors would be grateful if users of this program send any text written for input to converter program to the address. Www.tezu.ernet.in ~nlp). --!> Pre-requirement: • Java Run Time environment (tested on jre 1.6) • Geetanjali font • Solaiman lipi font Download: Please fill up the and send it to us by e-mail. It is a free of charge application.

We only keep track of user iformation for our purpose. How to use: Windows user Double click on the Geet.jar file Paste Geetanjali text into the first text box click on convert button If you have multiple text(.txt) file, click on the file conversion button Select files using ctrl key (There is one test file inside input directory) click ok. You will find all the converted utf-8 encoded file in the source directory. How to use: Linux user Open command prompt, change directory to Geet directory and type java -jar Geet.jar For any query/suggestions: utpal@tezu.ernet.in navanathsaharia@gmail.com.