Today being the first day of the Persian year 1372, I am releasing  
the first Persian True Type for Windows (as far as I know - let me  
know the first one.)  
  
Pars Ziba is copyrighted by Tooraj Enayati, however you are grated  
permission for personal use only, and to distribute it as long as  
you meet the conditions set out in this document.  
  
I think True Type fonts are the great. However I failed to find  
any Persian/Farsi ones around. So I designed my own. It wasn't easy.  
I have put in a lot of work on the design. I hope it is useful to  
you. However I must admit it is far from being complete as I'd like  
it to be. Lack of a true standard for Persian font encoding made my  
task even harder.  
  
Pars Ziba as is will allow you to enter Persian letters and type  
in Persian with a limited degree of ease! You might like to get  
hold of WinGreek (version 2 or above) which comes with a Hebrew  
driver to allow you type right to left. It is a shareware program and  
available from most anonymous ftp sites. This will allow you to use  
any Windows editor/WP (in conjunction with Pars Ziba) just like a  
Persian typewriter. It will not do any font management and encoding.  
That is, it will only display what you type and will not change  
the font depending what come after or before the character you type!  
  
To achieve this we need to have our own driver (Windows TSR.) Right  
now I am working on this and hopefully I'll have it ready along  
with a much better looking fonts by mid '93. So you may get in  
touch to get the complete version as soon as it is ready.  
  
I am only distributing this initial release of Pars Ziba through  
Internet. I encourage you to distribute the font amongst your  
friends and those who need it, as long as you observe and respect  
the conditions set out under CONDITIONS OF DISTRIBUTION.  
  
  
CONDITIONS OF DISTRIBUTION  
==========================  
  
        * You may not charge any money for Pars Ziba (including  
          its associated files and/or it's distribution,  
        * You may not modify or convert Pars Ziba under any  
          circumstances without author's written permission,  
        * You may not separate parsziba.ttf from its documentation  
          namely, parsziba.wri, and parsziba.txt,  
        * You may not modify any of the accompanying documentation  
          and/or files,  
        * you may not distribute Pars Ziba along or as a part of  
          any program or package without author's written permission.  
  
  
I welcome any comments and requests. And I'd like to hear from those  
who' like the complete package and these who'd like to include Pars  
Ziba into their commercial products.  
  
  
I'll soon be converting Pars Ziba to some other formats as well,  
such as ATM , MAC True Type, PS etc. So if you are interested get in touch.  
  
  
INSTALLATION AND USE  
====================  
  
To install use the Control Panel and Fonts, under the Main program  
groups of Windows 3.1.  You'll probably need to install the  
US-international keyboard layout from the International option of  
Control Panel, as it provides the most number of accessible characters  
on the keyboard and eliminates the need to use the Alt-number trick.  
  
As I mentioned before, WinGreek will make using Pars Ziba  
easier/practical. However, it is not perfect.  It can not handle  
carriage returns and alternative characters (Alt-Ctrl-key).  
Using WinGreek, you might like to press Ctrl-Sht-H to switch to Persian  
and then use your Editor's justify right option to start typing in  
Persian (after selecting Pars Ziba from the font option.) To insert  
a line before your current line just press the Enter key at the end  
of line. To insert a blank line after your current line go to the  
beginning of the line and press the enter key.  
  
WinGreek, treats any character entered by holding Alt-Ctrl as an  
accent and will not advance the cursor! So for these characters  
you'll need to use the arrow key to advance the cursor. I know  
that is a pain but, for time being that'll have to do :-(  
  
  
Enjoy it  
Tooraj Enayati  
21/03/93  
  
Internet: tooraj@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au  
  
Tooraj Enayati  
107/259 Malvern Road,  
South Yarra, VIC. 3141  
AUSTRALIA