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This project aims at increasing the number of available Arabic free and

open source fonts. The goals of this project are,



 * Create and/or salvage high quality free and open TTF Arabic fonts.



 * Create a central repository of all free and open source Arabic fonts

(TTF and otherwise) in order to get them included into the various

distributions.



 * To better couple and artistically match Arabic fonts to their latin

counterparts.



You can visit our web page

http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Khotot



This software package/product and attached documentations are provided

"as is", with no warranty.



                     -* www.arabeyes.org *-



If you'd like to help the Arabeyes Project, then consider:



  http://www.arabeyes.org/donate.php



Typeface and data © 2003-2007, Arabeyes.org.



Latin glyphs (U+0021-U+007E, U+00A1-U+0237, U+1E00-U+1EF9 and

U+FB00-U+FB06 Unicode ranges) are based on "Free UCS Outline Fonts",

www.nongnu.org/freefont (Copyleft 2002, 2003, 2005 Free Software

Foundation).



These fonts are subject to the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC (GPL) LICENSE (Version 2).

See COPYING for details or http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html



As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this

font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the

document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to

be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not

however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered

by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may

extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not

obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception

statement from your version.



Release Notes

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2.0

This the second major release of Arabeyes fonts, this release features:

  * Completely new Latin Glyphs, based on font distributed by FreeFonts project

    (See the legal notes above)

  * Proper support for Arabic diacritics; all fonts now have anchor points

    adjusted manually to fit nicely with each glyph.

  * Diacritics for AlMothnna, AlArabiya and Tholoth fonts have been redisigned

    too look better and fit with the style of the font.

  * We dropped ae_ prefix from all fonts, so please fix your configuration

    files.

  * Various other small fixes, see ChangeLog file for details.