SOFTware and FONTS

Sugam-98

As you may be knowing; Windows 98 do not support Unicode completely. Microsoft do supply Uniscribe (with IE 6) to render DevaNagari text in Windows 98. But there is no facility for entering Unicode encoded DevaNagari in Windows 98.

As a lot of people still use Windows 98, we have developed a package named 'Sugam-98'. It facilitates easy entry of Unicode encoded DevaNagari in Windows 98.

Components of Sugam-98:

• A great OpenType font - Akhil HE
• A simple TrueType font - Akhil
• iNagari-98 / TransLit-98
• InScript-98

To read about our main OpenType font - Akhil HE in English click here.

The font 'Akhil' is a small & plain but professionally created font to set English only text.

iNagari is the new keyboard layout developed by us that combines productivity of INSCRIPT with ease of Phonetic layout. It is a result of lot of research. We used to call it TransLit.

iNagari-98 is the keyboard filter program that facilitates input using our new and efficient layout 'iNagari/TransLit' in Windows 98.

To read more about iNagari/TransLit click here.

InScript-98 is the program that facilitates input using the standard INSCRIPT layout.

To download the brochure of Sugam click here.

You can use Sugam-98 with free software such as the OpenOffice that can render Unicode encoded Hindi text even in Windows 98!

We used to think Windows 98 is a great OS and when it is working just fine with our PCs, why to upgrade. But most of us have already upgraded to Windows 2000/2003 or Windows-XP. For these newer OSs we have 'Sugam-2K'.

Sugam-2K

Newer operating systems like Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Windows-XP support Unicode for Indic Scripts. You just need to buy quality Devanagari fonts as the DevaNagari font bundled with these operating systems is an ordinary one. If you buy our font 'Akhil HE', we will provide other components of Sugam-2K (like keyboard programs) free of cost.

The main component of Sugam-98 or Sugam-2K is 'Akhil HE' (an OpenType font). This as well as 'Akhil' (a simple TrueType font) will continue to work in newer operating systems like Windows 2000, XP, ... as these are the standard based fonts and will not become obsolete in next 20 years!

Some of us want to upgrade to Vista! In our opinion there is no need to do that. Upgrading requires not only a new OS like Vista but probably also a new PC. If you use your computer for hours then only you should upgrade, as upgrading also results in problems and inconvenience of taking your data and programs to a new PC.