Sunday, November 23, 2014

Celebrating Success Of Lohit Project


Hello ,

Last weekend we had the Fuel GILT conference. We had decided to celebrate the success of Lohit Project at the conference. Lohit Project successfully completed it's 10 years this Nov .I would like to share a few things about Lohit Project.



History of Lohit Project :
Font is the most important component for starting a Language computing. Earlier things were not good as far the "Indian Script Font " was Concerned . Red Hat understood this need . In their endeavor to help the open source community ,they purchased Good quality desktop fonts from Modular .Red Hat called it “Lohit” which means "RED" in sanskrit and released it under GPL license. That's how “Lohit” was born !!!

Achievement of Lohit Project :
Lohit Font is the default font for Indian Languages in all open source distribution like Debian,Fedora, Ubuntu, RHEL and Suse. It is used as a Web font in Wikipedia for Indian languages. It is also used in Android and by a few Government departments. The First­touch phone launched with Lohit Gujarati as a default fonts. Lohit Officially supports 22 Indian languages.

Future of Lohit Project - Lohit2 :
         Project for creating standard, reusable, efficient and effective Open type tables for Indian script fonts.This project aims to make font designers life easy by providing them ready to use open type tables.Lohit2 follows Unicode, Open Type, AGL, Language and Government specific standards and provides auto test module.

At the Fuel GILT conference we had a workshop for Lohit Fonts which included a presentation about the Lohit Project. We also had  cake cutting for Lohit's 10th anniversary at the conference.




In the end, I would like to thank Pravin Satpute for taking Lohit Project to such a great height.
         
For further reference:
https://fedorahosted.org/lohit
https://github.com/pravins/lohit2


Sunday, November 2, 2014

Testing Screenshots For Windows Xp


Hello,
 
As we have proceeded with the work for Lohit2 Project ,We have now done the alpha release for Lohit-Tamil,Lohit-Oriya and Lohit-Bengali.We have done the testing for the same on Linux ,Windows8 and Windows Xp.We are facing some issues on Windows XP for Lohit-Tamil,Lohit-Oriya and Lohit-Bengali.These issues will be fixed prior to the Beta release.Here are the screenshots for the testing on Windows XP.

Testing screenshot for Lohit-Oriya on Windows XP



 Testing Screenshot for Lohit-Tamil on Windows XP


Testing Screenshot for Lohit-Bengali on Windows XP




For further reference :
https://github.com/pravins/lohit2/
http://utrrs-testing.rhcloud.com/language/bn_IN
https://fedorahosted.org/lohit


Testing Screenshots for Lohit-Oriya

Hello!!,

As we had already proceeded with the work for Lohit-Oriya as planned earlier, We are now going to announce the release for Lohit-Oriya. We have done testing of  Lohit-Oriya on Linux and Windows8. Here are the screenshots for the same.


Testfile screenshot of Lohit-Oriya on Linux :




Testfile screenshot of Lohit-Oriya on Windows8 :






For further reference :
https://github.com/pravins/lohit2/
http://utrrs-testing.rhcloud.com/language/or