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Started 1 year ago by dhanraj
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Posted 1 year ago

# 34

dhanraj
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I recently installed Ubuntu and is working fine. I wanted to use Hindi, enabled SCIM and got it. Now, can anybody tell me - a)How to increase no. of Hindi fonts and b) How to use files created in Leap Office in Open office. This will help me in smoot migration from Windows to Ubuntu.
Posted 1 year ago

# 35

sadicote
Member

These are good enough for me as far as my Hindi typing needs are concerned: http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/# and http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/about_hi.html#fonts. However, if this is the only reason that is preventing your "smooth migration", then you should stay with Windows, or install Ubuntu alongside if you want a taste of it.

You can also visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enabling_complex_text_support_for_Indic_scripts#GNOME
Posted 1 year ago

# 39

sureshkrshukla
Member

To improve your Hindi typing experience, use a Devanagari keyboard.
Read my blog for details : http://anektameekta.blogspot.com/

Regarding your problem. I have faced same problem with iLeap.

I haven't solved it completely but I will share my steps:
Export/save from iLeap and save as RTF format. I tried HTML but RTF is the best one to preserve formatting etc.
This permits you to atleast see the doc in any RTF doc program.

iLeap stores the Hindi data in some custom format with TTY-Yogesh. So this RTF would require to be converted to Unicode format before OpenOffice can edit it.

Try the converters kept here:
http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%A8

I found the above wiki page yesterday. I am yet to try it.

I have analyzed the font conversion problem and have been idling with idea to write a font converter of my own.

Try the above link and other attempts, post your updates.

If required I will write the font converter on coming weekend.
Posted 1 year ago

# 52

sureshkrshukla
Member

I have used version 2.4 in past with great success. I have used Hindi with spell checker and autocomplete features. With unicode format + export to HTML/pdf - OpenOffice Writer is one of best editors for Hindi.

Today I tried OpenOffice 3.0 for Hindi typing. Hindi support looks missing/broken.
http://hi.openoffice.org looks inactive with last activity in 2007.

Anybody got updates on these.

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