NASHIR
(Perso-Arabic publishing made easy)
At the
forefront of Indian language technology for over a decade
now, C-DAC is proud to announce, another first from
the GIST stable, Nashir.
Although C-DAC has supported scripts written from Right to Left earlier, it has all been on DOS platform. A revolutionary new software, Nashir is a Windows based application that can be easily used to quickly create content in Perso-Arabic scripts.
Capable
of handling scripts written from right to left, Nashir
is a comprehensive software for publishing and word
Processing in Urdu, Sindhi and Kashmiri.Not only can
it be used to vreste content in these languages, it
also comes packed with features to make use of these
languages extremely easy. It provides a variety of tools
to increase the efficiency of the user. Hindi-Urdu transliteration,
table and column layouts, support for Nastaliq and Naskh
scripts, keyboard shortcuts, search and replace, text
formatting tools are among the many features designed
to increase user efficiency...
Enabling
viewing of multiple documents at the same time, the
storage format uses PASCII (Perso-Arabic Standard for
Information Interchange) standard to save the data.
And, while documents can ve exported as HTML with various
options, Nashir supports Unicode as well.
Unique to Nashir is its support for Nastaliq script with an array of beautiful calligraphic fonts. Various Naskh fonts including stylish fonts have been provided to enhance the aesthetics of text content. And a number of thoughtful tools and short cuts make it easy to use these fonts and apply styles, attributes.
Transliteration,
another noteworthy feature, provides facility to import
other Indian language content( currently supporting
Hindi and Punjabi) into Urdu. A transliteration plugin
UTrans is used to transliterate ISCII data into PASCII.
This can be very useful for converting Indian language
data into Perso-Arabic data. A GUI plug-in, with both
Indian language and Urdu display, is also available
for interactive transliteration.
Nashir also allows use of multiple languages simultaneously, which means one can use Urdu, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Arabic and English text, all in one text frame. Style toolbar and popup menus are provided to easily select and apply various languages, fonts, styles, and attributes.
Salient Features:
- User-friendly graphical user interface
- Multiple document Interface
- Support for multiple languages ( Arabic, Urdu, Sindhi, Kashmiri, English)
- Support for Nastaliq and Naskh scripts
- Varying font sizes and Multiple text attributes
- Pleasing, aesthetic fonts
- Facility to manage tables
- Rulers and guidelines
- Easy page layout formatting using master page facility
- Facility to make columns
- Vertical and horizontal kerning
- Text wrap and wrap around objects
- Insert text frames anywhere on the page
- Link Text frames
- Transliteration plug-in for Hindi and Punjabi
- Export pages as HTML/images
- Unicode support
- Drawing objects for borders and filled objects
- Select language and keyboard with just a right-click
- OLE objects support
- Both, phonetic and inscript keyboard layouts supported
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