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Introduction - RaghuOriya

C-DAC Mumbai presents 'Raghu'- a series of OpenType fonts in 9 Indic scripts for
12 Indian languages. These fonts named as RaghuHindi, RaghuTamil etc.  have been
designed,  developed and realised through the efforts of the following people of
C-DAC Mumbai who worked for project IndiX, funded by TDIL Programme,  Department
of   Information   Technology,   Ministry   of  Communications  and  Information
Technology, Govt. of India.

Font Design Team:

Prof. R. K. Joshi, Vinay Saynekar, Rajith Kumar  K.  M.,  Omkar  Shende,  Sarang
Kulkarni,  Amresh  Mondkar,  Jui  Mhatre,  Supriya  Kharkar, Kruti Dalvi, Nirmal
Biswas, Seema Mangaonkar, Riddhi Joshi, Lokesh Karekar.

Technical Team:

Dr. Alka Irani, Vinod Kumar, Sandeep Rao, D.S. Dixit, Ajit Joshi, Keyur  Shroff.

Language Co-ordination Team:

Gracy Abreo, Rekha Sharma, Rekha Nair, Menaka Arumugam.

Technical Support:

ITSS (IT Systems and Solutions), Jitendra Mandalia (Graphics).

RaghuOriya  is a digital font, in OpenType Format using Unicode standards and is
based on visual syllable standard of IndiX Compugraphy, for  creating,  editing,
viewing and printing text in Oriya script for Oriya language.

RaghuOriya  font Original Version 1.00 (2005) has been designed and developed by
Prof. R. K. Joshi (TypeFont Design Director, Visiting Design  Specialist  at  C-
DAC  Mumbai)  in  association  with  Mr. Rajith Kumar K. M. (TypeFont Designer),
assisted by Mr. Nirmal Biswas, Ms. Jui Mhatre and Ms. Supriya Kharkar at C-  DAC
Mumbai under IndiX2, Project funded by TDIL Programme, Department of Information
Technology, Ministry of Communications  and  Information  Technology,  Govt.  of
India.

In  RaghuOriya  font  the  sufficient  number  of glyphs have been provided. The
designed letterforms of RaghuOriya font in Oriya script, have elegant structures
of  thick  and semi-thick strokes with graceful curves. Vertical strokes contain
slight curvature. This font generally  takes care of written syllables for Oriya
language text using Oriya script.

The actual font is available, among other places, from:

http://www.cdacmumbai.in/projects/indix


Copyright

RaghuOriya font Original Version 1.00 (2005) Copyright by Centre for Development
of Advanced Computing, Mumbai.

RaghuOriya font Original Version 1.00 (2005) has been  released  under  GNU  GPL
Version 2.


Usage

Using  RaghuOriya  font  to  its  full  potential, requires a text layout system
capable of recognizing Unicode standard and  reordering  as  well  as  combining
characters according to the visual syllable standard of IndiX Compugraphy. Refer
to the standard  available  on  website  http://www.cdacmumbai.in/projects/indix
RaghuOriya  is  to  be  used  for  continuous  text  in  Oriya  language. And is
recommended to be used in minimum 18pt. size on screen and 12pt. size on  paper.


DISCLAIMER

RAGHUORIYA  FONT  ORIGINAL  VERSION  1.00 (2005) HAS BEEN RELEASED UNDER GNU GPL
VERSION 2, FOR ITS USAGE, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE ENTIRE RISK  AND
THE FULL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE USAGE OF RAGHUORIYA FONT, IN PARTS OR IN FULL, AS
TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF RAGHUORIYA FONT LIES WITH THE USER. SHOULD THE
FONT PROVE DEFECTIVE IN ANY RESPECT IN INSTALLATION, OPERATION OR OTHERWISE, THE
USER ASSUMES ALL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR  THE  SAME  AND  BEARS  THE  COST  OF  ANY
NECESSARY  SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION (AND NOT THE FONT DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS
OR ANY OTHER CONTRIBUTORS FROM OTHER INDIX TEAMS AT  C-DAC,  MUMBAI).  UNDER  NO
CIRCUMSTANCES,  MAY  FONT  DESIGN  TEAM  AND/OR ANY OTHER TEAM INVOLVED IN INDIX
PROJECT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE, LOST DATA OR  ANY
OTHER  DAMAGES, EITHER DIRECT OR INDIRECT, CAUSED BY USING THIS RAGHUORIYA FONT.