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>Introduction</TITLE
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>Bangla PDF HOWTO</TH
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><A
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NAME="introduction"
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>1. Introduction</H1
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> PDF files, known for being viewable on most platforms, are a popular medium for distributing Bangla files over the Internet. Another use of PDF and
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Postscript files in the <SPAN
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CLASS="acronym"
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>UNIX</SPAN
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> world is for printing. While PDF files can be created with various applications, this text is an attempt to describe the process of PDF creation using the free software <SPAN
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CLASS="application"
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>KWord</SPAN
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> and <SPAN
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CLASS="application"
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>ttf2pt1</SPAN
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>. The fonts used in this process are the Bijoy fonts included in the <SPAN
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CLASS="application"
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>Bijoy2000</SPAN
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package. The keyboard layout for typing in Bangla is also Bijoy (the
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typing method of ligatures or compound characters is slightly different
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from the original one).</P
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>1.1. Copyright & License</H2
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>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is located at <A
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HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html"
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>http://www.gnu.org/licences/fdl.html</A
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>.</P
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>Bijoy fonts (c) Mustafa Jabbar, Ananda Computers, 8/6 Segun Bagicha, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh.</P
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>1.2. Minimum Requirements</H2
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> The test platform used were <SPAN
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>FreeBSD-4.6.0 RELEASE</SPAN
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> and <SPAN
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>RedHat-7.3</SPAN
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>. Earlier versions of RedHat won't do. Whatever is the platform, at least the following are required:</P
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> <SPAN
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>XFree86-4.2.0</SPAN
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(unsure about earlier versions)
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</P
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><LI
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> <SPAN
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>KDE-3</SPAN
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</P
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> <SPAN
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CLASS="application"
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>KWord-1.1.1</SPAN
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</P
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></LI
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><LI
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> <A
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HREF="http://ttf2pt1.sf.net"
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TARGET="_top"
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> <SPAN
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>TTF2PT1-3.4.3</SPAN
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</A
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</P
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> <SPAN
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CLASS="application"
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>Bijoy2000 fonts</SPAN
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</P
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>Strong willingness to create a Bangla PDF.</P
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> There are many fonts that come with the <SPAN
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CLASS="application"
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>Bijoy2000</SPAN
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> package. In this text, to state a fontname, only <SPAN
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CLASS="QUOTE"
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>"SutonnyMJ"</SPAN
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> has been used. This name can be replaced with others to meet individual needs. </P
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><H2
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NAME="caution"
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>1.3. Caution</H2
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>After installing the Bijoy fonts and keyboard, one may be tempted to use them for purposes other than creating PDFs. But a little common sense and
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farsightedness will reveal that the use of a nonstandard font and keyboard like
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Bijoy is destined to create the same kind of chaos regarding Bangla in the Open
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Source environment as is now prevailing in the proprietary world. PDF is a
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different story though as they are font independent(if created properly) and
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has no chance of getting into this kind of chaos. Now what if one needs to
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create a Bangla text file? Easy - use Unicode. Recent developments has made it
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possible to write Unicode based Bangla in GTK+ 2.0 (or higher) based softwares.
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And the same thing is on the offing for QT (which is the backbone of KDE).
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Even PDFs can be created from Unicode encoded Bangla text files. This has been
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described in a later <A
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HREF="unicode.html"
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>Section 6</A
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>. So instead of relying on
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nonstandard softwares like Bijoy, try to use Unicode based Bangla wherever
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possible. </P
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