Readme Introduction - RaghuBengali 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). RaghuBengali 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 Bengali script for Bengali language. RaghuBengali 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. Vinay Saynekar (TypeFont Designer), assisted by Mr. Amresh Mondkar, 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 RaghuBengali font the sufficient number of glyphs have been provided. The designed letterforms of RaghuBengali font in Bengali script, are based on traditional writing with reed pen, creating combinations of thick and thin strokes. This font generally takes care of written syllables for Bengali language text using Bengali script. The actual font is available, among other places, from: http://www.cdacmumbai.in/projects/indix Copyright RaghuBengali font Original Version 1.00 (2005) Copyright by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Mumbai. RaghuBengali font Original Version 1.00 (2005) has been released under GNU GPL Version 2. Usage Using RaghuBengali 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 RaghuBengali is to be used for continuous text in Bengali language. And is recommended to be used in minimum 18pt. size on screen and 12pt. size on paper. For texts in other Indian languages using Bengali script (such as Assamese etc.), the usage of RaghuBengali font may not meet the exact linguistic, orthographic, and/or typographic needs of these other languages. DISCLAIMER RAGHUBENGALI 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 RAGHUBENGALI FONT, IN PARTS OR IN FULL, AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF RAGHUBENGALI 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 RAGHUBENGALI FONT.