JOURNAL OF ARABIC AND
ISLAMIC STUDIES
(ISSN: 0806-198X)
FONTS
Articles will be
distributed in Adobe Acrobat PDF format with the original fonts often embedded
in the files. Adobe fonts as well as fonts owned by Linotype-Hell AG,
International Typeface Corporation, Agfa-Gevaert, Fundición Typográfica Neufville, and Monotype Typography, Ltd., may be embedded
in Adobe PDF files and distributed freely. Permission may be needed to
distribute PDF files containing other embedded fonts, and authors using fonts
from other sources should consult with the font supplier.
The fonts recommended by
the Journal for transliteration are Times New Roman (
Some “standard”
Arabic fonts, because of licensing restrictions, cannot be embedded in PDF
files. This applies to the usual favorites, “Simplified Arabic” and
“Traditional Arabic” for the PC. Even if you do not use these fonts, but one
of them is named as your complex font in your formatting, we will not be able
to produce a PDF file! Please use Times New Roman Arabic, if it
suits your needs, or download “Akhbar MT,” or some other unrestricted font. If
you use “Simplified Arabic” or “Traditional Arabic,” we
will have to reformat everything you do.
The best summary of
diacritic fonts for Arabic is probably to be found on Knut S. Vikørs’s page “Arabic
Home Page” for the Mac, which also contains valuable information for
PC users.
Because the
Journal no longer distributes files requiring installation of the JAIS1 font,
files referring to this font have been deleted.
Last
modified October 22, 2007.
