Replacing Two characters with one?

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Posted by: asim963
         
Hi

I am working on a arabic based font.
I want to replace two characters with one character,
How can i do it?
Anyone can help me??

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Posted by: Star Gazer
         

Please see the VOLT resources, and in particular the training video, here:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/VOLT.mspx

 

 

Peter

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Posted by: baituraza
         
Asim san

Could you please a little bit explain what exactly do you want to do?
Else please have a look at Volt training video that may help you a little bit.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fc5802b7-f78b-43cf-98bd-ddedea3fcad1&displaylang=en

Regards


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Posted by: valavel
         
When two glyphs are combined into one it is called a ligature for example in Arabic lam with meem. Or lam+ lam+ heh for  lillah.  In Volt use the feature. Good luck

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Posted by: KTsee
         

u can download the demo video from MS website and learn from it:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fc5802b7-f78b-43cf-98bd-ddedea3fcad1&displaylang=en

 

after u install the Volt, it will provide u two font example files.

u can check them to learn

 

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