David Chelidze | [email protected]
Installing Georgian Fonts
for Windows 3.x and Windows 95
To start you should have the
following files available:
rs_font.zip
(by Mr. Reno Siradze) and/or fonts.zip
& vgafix1g.zip
(by Shavlego) also ge_key.zip
(Keyboard Driver Software).
Unziping Files
You should have pkunzip.exe
or winzip
to unzip the downloaded files. I also assume that you can
unzip files in a specified directories.
Unzip rs_font.zip and fonts.zip
in the directory of your convinience. Lets say you unziped
them in c:\g-fonts\.
Make directory for the keyboard driver (e.g. c:\key_ge\),
and unzip the ge_key.zip into that directory.
Font Installation
For Windows 95
- Click "Start"
> "Settings" > "Control
Panel". Double click "Fonts folder."
You should get the window with all the fonts installed on
your system.
- You
can do two things now. You can either drag and drop the
specific font files (e.g. siradze.ttf, rswwwnt1.ttf,
...) in to this window or form "File"
menu choose "Install New Font..." that
will give you a dialogue window "Add Fonts."
Now you can select the fonts from your directory (e.g. c:\g-fonts\)
and click "OK." That's it.
For Windows 3.x
- From "Main"
program group double click on "Control Panel,"
then double click on "Fonts." You should
get the window with all the fonts installed on your
system.
- To
install your new fonts click "Add..." and
you should get "Add Fonts" dialoge
window. Select the directory where you unziped the font
files (e.g. c:\g-fonts\) and click on "Select
All" and "OK." Close all windows
and you are done!
Driver Installation
- After you unziped it your keyboared
driver is already installed. You just need to configure
it. To load the driver start app16.exe. The icon of
your driver should appeare on your desktop.
- Left(win3.x)/Right(win95) botton
click on the icon and you should get a menu. Select "Menu
Configuration."
- For standard Georgian keyboard layout:
Click on "Alternate 1"
From "Keyboard File" choose ge_gcuk1.wkb
From "Icon" choose Georgia
In "Menu Name" type Georgian ST
(ST for standard keyboard layout)
- For
non-standard Lathin keyboard layout: Click on "Alternate
2"
From "Keyboard File" choose ge_mix1.wkb
From "Icon" choose Georgia
In "Menu Name" type Georgian US
(US for lathin keyboard layout)
- One more
thing: you can alternate between the English (or any
other) and Georgian keyboard drivers by pressing the Scroll
Lock key.
Further References
ADD TO YOUR
BROWSER THE FONTS YOU WANT! This page by Zurab Gaprindashvili
describes the procedure of Font Installation in Windows and
how to setup your browser (Netscape 2.x) to view Georgian
fonts.
David Chelidze | [email protected]http://coriolis.esm.psu.edu/david/GFonts.html
Subject: The Georgian fonts
From: Zurab <[email protected]>
Date: 1996/10/04
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.rep-of-georgia
Hi all,
Untill now there were not a Georgian multilingual
fonts. Now it seems,that soon we will get more different
standards...
As far
as I know, the government working group(8 members) was created
in Georgia for just this. They should define the new standard
for ISO and UNICODE. The work should be completed by the end
of this year.
Z.G.
Subject: Re: Help on installing
Georgian fonts for the internet needed
From: "Zurab G." <[email protected]>
Date: 1997/03/28
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.rep-of-georgia
[email protected] wrote:
> Dear friends,
> I have dozens of different Georgian fonts that I
successfully use for
> word processing, however I couldn't quite figure out how
to read articles
> in Georgian on the net, or in this newsgroup. I checked
at Mr. Siradze's
> www. place and downloaded some Internet fonts but they
don't seem to work
> when I install them (or maybe I'm a computer dinosaur) .
I have Windows
> 95. Please, tell me specifcaly what Georgian fonts I
should use for
> reading articles in Georgian in this newsgroup. Or if you
can, please
> e-mail me those fonts. Thanks a lot.
> Iva
If you use Win 95,
you should be using internet explorer ;-)
So, first you need to install RSwwwNET
font in your system. To do so, first go to "My
Computer", then "Control Panel" then
"Fonts", then press ALT-F and select "install
new font", then insert the disk with RSwwwNET and select
this disk, or if you have it on your HDD, show the path to it.
if "Copy fonts to fonts folder" isn't checked, do
so, and press OK.
This
is first half, now you need some wrestling with Internet
Explorer. This is the one of many reasons, why Navigator is
far better.
Go to
"View" then to "options"
Select "Proportional font" and
choose RSwwNET. At time I was doing installation, this fonts
wouldn't allow fixed font support, but if it does now, try to
find the same name in "Fixed font". Clikc OK.
You will be able to read WWW
pages(Proportional). I am not sure about Newsgroup, though, (I
don't have the 95) but try, it could work. In netscape you
simply select option, which will use Proportional (AKA TTF)
font for newsgroups, but in IE it could be fixed.
BTW, Mr. Siradze's announcement for WIN
NT was very interesting, but there are some problems accessing
this particular directory. Is it UNICODE? Also driver is good,
Georgian version of UNICODE would be even important. Because
it was done for MAC, and I think, for MAC it should be
UNICODE, is UNICODE ready for NT?
Regards, Zurab.
