Bangla PDF HOWTO

Progga

2003-01-30

Revision History
Revision 1.1 2003-04-14 Revised by: Pro
PDF from Unicode, Caution about Bijoy
Revision 1.0 2003-01-30 Revised by: Pro
Initial Release on Planet Earth, reviewed by LDP

This text mainly describes the PDF creation process using KWord with the Bijoy2000 fonts and Bijoy keyboard, for working in the Bangla language. Some information on PDF creation from Unicode encoded Bangla text files is also provided.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Copyright & License
1.2. Minimum Requirements
1.3. Caution
2. Fonts
2.1. TrueType to Type1 Conversion
2.2. Font Installation
2.3. On Using TrueType
3. Keyboard
3.1. Using The Bijoy Keyboard
3.2. Writing Ligatures
4. Printing as PDF
5. RedHat Peculiarities
6. PDF from Unicode
6.1. Lekho
6.2. BSpeller
7. Other Resources
7.1. Useful tools
7.2. Useful Links & References
8. Acknowledgments
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