Check out Al Abdali 8.

Jens

Thank you Jens.

I have had a look at the Al Abdali 8 font and from what I can see it looks promising.

I have to admit that working with .ttf and .otf Font files, other than installing them into Windows, is something new to me, and I am having trouble seeing the form of the individual characters. Trying to insert each character into MS word is causing Word to crash.

The system into which I want to build the font, is an OEM piece of equipment with embedded firmware. It runs a 192 x 64 pixel display user interface, displaying pregenerated English text strings from within the embedded code. The user can also select to change to French, German, Spanish, etc. and we have had relative strings simply translated into the appropiate languages and stored in the code.

When it comes to Russian, Greek, or Chinese, we have generated a bitmap look-up table for each character to be displayed.

Ideally, I was hoping to do the same thing for Arabic message strings that have already been correctly constructed, but to do this I need to be able to see the full form of each character and it's code within the font table in order to generate the bitmap look-up table.

Other than downloading the Al Abdali font file, I have so far been unable to find any other information, or make progress.

Any advice, please

Tony

How about Tahoma? If you're interested in licensing a bitmap version of the font (which contains hinted outlines Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew and Thai) please drop Ascender a mail via http://www.ascendercorp.com/

Here is One of 100's sites offering products with Bitmap Arabic fonts:
http://www.zikronline.com/newproducts.html
Surely, one of them will guide you to the right site.
All the Best with Flowers

It is certainly possible. In the 1980s my brother and I
made an Arabic font for the Commodore64: 8×8, with
the bottom row unused! And it was entirely readable.

These days I make bitmap fonts with grayscaling:
http://www.themicrofoundry.com/manademo/
If this were applied to Arabic it would certainly help!

hhp