So, after all these years, we have a Malayalam font that works in Apple's macs. Well, almost. My brother and I have been working on getting Rachana to work, and it looks quite good now. The goal has been to make a font that can use every glyph provided by Rachana. You can see in the screen capture that it seems to work quite well in Firefox, but not so well in Safari (where the kind of chillu usage in wikipedia is causing some trouble).
Update (Sep 7, 2009): You can find the alpha version of the font here.
12 comments:
Though I don't use a mac, I appreciate your efforts to brig malayalam into the front. Cheers,,
Do you know if snow leopard has malayalam scripts in it? They've been adding atleast 1 Indic script in every release. So I am optimistitic :-)
I upgraded my mac. There is no out of the box support for malayalam in snow leopard. So, eagerly awaiting your alpha release!!!
Great job!
Truly remarkable effort..[:)]
Thanks to both you and Vinod chetan
waiting ..waiting..waiting for your font update.. :)
Thanks for your patience. You can download the font from here: http://sites.google.com/site/macmalayalam/
I/We'll try to say a bit more about some of the technical details later.
That's a great job done.... Thanks friend...
Thanks Manoj and Vinod. I have been one of the many struggling with deciphering malayalam on Mac for years. Hopefully this is the much waited relief
Hi,
The Images look really good.
I have been trying to download this file but am not able to. Is there an alternate URL I can get it from ?
Thanks
Murli
@Murli,
The link works fine for me: please try http://sites.google.com/site/macmalayalam/home/RachanaMac.ttf again, and let me know if it doesn't work.
@Manoj
Thanks a million, Manoj. That worked.
This font is beautiful. I used to use Rachana on PC but have been missing for the last couple of years since I moved to Mac.
Regards
Murli
Fantastic job guys! It works great with Leopard. Truly appreciate the effort!
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