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C V Srinatha Sasthry (CVSS), Chief Secretary, Kannada Ganaka Parishat (KGP), told me that he got the font made from someone before submitting the final package to GoK. Artists have to draw each character (glyph) on paper, they have to be scanned, digitized, hinted, etc. Myself and Harsha (the programmer who did the coding for Nudi) were opposing the release of Nudi without our own professional fonts. Nudi was initially thought as a testing software. Now let me discuss the about the fonts bundled with Nudi. After a long gap of six years, recently (2004), Vasu admitted that he used the glyphs from Akruti fonts, in a mail to S K Anand. But morally, ethically and legally, this amounts to violation of intellectual property rights. His idea was that just by changing the ASCII values of the glyphs, his font becomes different from Akruti font. Later on he changed the ASCII values of the glyphs of Akruti font and released the Baraha package officially. He included the Kan Ballal font which was given to read Udayavani web-site with the first release of Baraha, which was given to some select friends only. I explained to him the he need to take the permission of S K Anand of Cyberscape to use Akruti fonts in his software. I asked him about the copyright of the font. He had actually written an editor for the font he downloaded from the web. The version sent to me was a beta version.

#AKRUTI FONT SOFTWARE#

He wrote that he wanted to give this software free to everyone. One day I got an email from Vasu saying that he has made a software called Baraha that can be used as an editor for Kannada. (Recently, during his visit to India in June 2004, Vasu wrote an article for Vijaya Karnataka, wherein he mentioned the discussions he had with me about the relation between font and keyboard driver). Then there was no mail from Vasu for some time. I gave the contact details of S K Anand and the approximate price of the software also.

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I explained him how to type in Kannada using the keyboard driver which has to be bought from Cyberscape. He added that it takes a long time to copy characters through CharMap (an utility present in Windows to copy a glyph of a font into any application) and make a Kannada sentence. In that mail he appreciated Vishva Kannada. Sometimes in the first half of 1997, I got an email from Sheshadri Vasu who was at USA.

#AKRUTI FONT INSTALL#

Users have to download the font, install it in their PC and then they could read the Vishva Kannada web-site in Kannada. Akruti fonts were given for download at the web-site. Dynamic font technology was not being used by Vishva Kannada at that time. 1996 with the support of S K Anand of Cyberscape. I had put up KannadaвЂ™s first web-site called Vishva Kannada during Dec. Sleep peacefully now (it is 00:45 hrs in the night) :-)ДЇont issues -Akruti, Baraha and Nudiby U B Pavanaja I have attached the promised document on the font issues.