A few months back I bought myself a macbook pro. Really i think it was a good decision. I am very happy with the quality of hardware and some of the cool features that Mac OS X Tiger offers. So today while I was browsing, I came across. It publishes it’s content in 9 different Indian languages including Hindi, my mother tounge. I was using Firefox 2.0.07 and all I could see on the site was images and???? All the hindi text appeared as question marks. Free Handwriting Fonts - free fonts download. Hi-tech Fonts 7; Hindi Fonts 52. Free fonts for mac, truetype fonts free download. Can't see Hindi? Perhaps the fonts package needs to be downloaded, you can see the instructions to install Hindi fonts for the Mac straight from Stevie's website. Simply follow the instructions to download Fonts, Download Hindi Keyboard Layout and Hindi Unicode. Free Hindi Fonts. How to Install Font in Apple Mac? I immediately thought that hindi fonts are not installed. I decided to install the font set to see my favourite curvy characters. I search very hard on the internet, googling this afternoon to get Hindi working on my Mac. But to no avail. After my evening tea I sat again and decided to give it another try. But this time to my surprise I could read everything without doing anything. I had no clue what was going on. Then I realised I was using Safari, the pre installed browser. After some more search on net I came to know that Indic rendering of Firefox on Mac OS X is not up to the mark yet, but is perfect on Safari. To sum up: On Safari with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger the handling of Indian scripts is amazingly flawless. On Firefox unfortunately as of today Indian scripts can’t be rendered well enough. If you wish to type in Hindi: 1) Go to System Preferences 2) Click on International 3) Click on the Input tab and select Devanagari and/or Devanagari-QWERTY 4) Check the Show Input Menu in Menu Bar for easy switching And this is how to write word Hindi using hindi script. Dan Lind Says: Am currently studying Hindi at the Landour Language School in Mussoorie, Uttarkhand, India. Am transcribing most of my lesson notes onto my MacBook. This is really quite easy, but have found that TextEdit is the best for the Devanagari/English data entry. Unfortunately I find Word impossible, and Pages flaky especially in tabbing. Want to try out some of the alternate word processing programsany suggestions out there? Am concerned that I’ll have problems with TextEdit when I come to printouts and more advanced formatting. Says: Hi Anubhavjee, I have recently bought a mac with OSX Leopard (10.5.2). As per you suggestion regarding hindi font and reading/writing, I did something like this (as u have suggested): If you wish to type in Hindi: 1) Go to System Preferences 2) Click on International 3) Click on the Input tab and select Devanagari and/or Devanagari-QWERTY 4) Check the Show Input Menu in Menu Bar for easy ” I am still not able to read/write. Could you suggest me what to do next? Thanking you in anticipation!
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