All You Ever Wanted to Know Regarding Multilingual Softwares

  VS QuarkXPress vs Indesign   Many a times my clients who are in the process of launching a Newspaper, ask me  which Page Layout software to install. I have always advised them to see it from  an operators' point of view. For users migrating from older applications like Adobe  PageMaker, Indesign would be an ideal choice. Also Indesign allows better   integration with other Adobe Applications like, Photoshop, Illustrator & Acrobat,  e.g. making PDF files becomes easier. However, QuarkXPress has reigned  supreme  in this application area for long & so has its own strengths too. Please find below a broad Comparison between the two Competitors, based on available information: Comparison Table   The Basic comparison  QuarkXPress InDesign Operating system Classic Mac OS, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows Windows and Mac OS Language Multilingual 24 Language Quality vs Quantity

    The Evolution of Font Technology   In general, fonts are of three types: PostScript Type 1 (Type1) or TrueType (TT), which came along about six years later, and then a blending of the two previous fonts called OpenType (OT).      Type1 Fonts   PostScript font formats Adobe Type 1 fonts are stored in two common formats: .pfa  (PostScript Font ASCII) and .pfb  (PostScript Font Binary). These contain descriptions of the character shapes, with each character being generated by a small program that calls on other small programs to compute common parts of the characters in the font. In both cases, the character descriptions are encrypted. Before such a font can be used, it must be rendered into dots in a bitmap, either by the PostScript interpreter, or by a specialized rendering engine, such as Adobe Type Manager, which is used to generate low-resolution screen fonts on Apple Macintosh and on Microsoft Windows systems. The Type 1 binary files ( .pfa  and .pfb ) contain

Multilingual (Indian Language) softwares are essential in our country where less than 6% of our fellow countrymen are conversant in English language. In order to make E-Governance a success mantra, all Government portals must have Indian Language content. Added to this is the requirement of Media Houses, Educational Institutes, Ad Agencies, Printers, Publishers & Corporates to create multilingual content. After the advent of the pandemic a year back, E-Publishing has seen a boost like never before. Since, all Windows & Mac-based Applications have been written keeping English language in mind, typing in Indian Languages using these same Applications require settings to be finetuned to get the best results. As we all know, English characters are vertically oriented whereas Indian Language characters are horizontally oriented. Also, English does not have conjuncts which are present in Indian Languages. I am Chandan Datta, an IT Professional having more than 35 years of experience