Gurumaa OTF/TTF Hindi Font (GPL) Updated

It has been around 6 years now. in 2004, there were only very few ugly fonts. Raghindi (Raghu hindi) font was there, but look very casual kind of font. Mangal by microsoft is really a eye-sore. :)

Being a non-professional in font field, and licensing things. I did not care much. The font exception came a bit later I guess. So, there was no need to add any exceptions etc...

Gurumaa opentype font is based on binary Indic.ttf (GPL) by Sanjay Khatri; I did not use/modify Sanjay Khatri's font's source.

I added the code required to the Combination/Complex Devanagari Characters to work in Linux and Windows XP.

Now Reading Hindi in Windows is pleasurable!

I have uploaded only the Gurumaa.ttf, as XP and Openoffice/Gnome can do both Bold and Italics. Unfortunately KDE4x can do italics only, and bold variations does not work with KDE.

For better look and feel use Cleartype in Windows XP.

It looks very good with AntiAlias enabled in KDE, OpenOffice and in PDF too. Print quality is just amazing!
Please report any troubles with the font to "fast DOT rizwaan AT gmail DOT com"

license:
gpl2, gpl3, free to modify and redistribute; documents/embedding is allowed; only the derivative font is required to be GPLed, not the text documents/images/videos.

v. 1.50: many issues with font rendering in windows.
v. 1.4: fixed Ascender top alignment for KWord 2.2.1. Now font woks in kword 2.2.1 without getting cut on the top. v.1.30 and v.1.4 are included in the download package.

v. 1.30-2: only gurumaa-1.30.ttf is provided. As bold, italics, are handled very nicely by KOffice 2.2.1 and MS Office.

v. 1.30-1: re-added bold, italics fonts, along with license file (gpl2), with font exception: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException

v. 1.30: Fix hinting and now looks good on Windows XP and Linux alike.
Now Gurumaa Hindi font works in Windows.

v. 1.29: not released
v.1.28: fixed KOffice problem of below-base-forms displayed cut. fixed "devanagariSignHalantR' issue with Tra and Dra characters.

v.1.27: fix font size and added zviewgurumaa.ttf for Reading Hindi it is just Gurumaa bold font.

v.1.26: fix half-tra as in trayambakam

v1.25: fixed 'u' matra problem with k and ph in GM-Bold, etc.

v1.24: fix many issues, corrected below base anchors etc. many fixes.

v1.21: corrected many glyph combinations.
font works in KDE now as exected
matras are properly arranged on the glyphs

v1.1:
A total readjustment by making a new template.
Now font works in Windows too.
All glyphs have been adjusted.
Gurumaa.ttf = normal
Gurumaa-b.ttf = Bold,
Gurumaa-bi.ttf = Bold-Italic,
Gurumaa-i.ttf = Italic

v1.0: initial release.