Please read this before you proceed in
viewing Arabic pages in this site.
Arabic pages in this site are presented as text, not images as
in many Arabic sites on the Internet, In order to view them ,you need to browse the pages
using the right combination of operating system and browser.
Please read the following options and choose the one you prefer.
In addition, to improve the overall quality of fonts displayed on your screen, regardless
of your browser, read about MS Windows 95 font smoother.
If you are using Arabic Windows 95
For best results, use Microsoft
Arabic Internet Explorer 3.02 . This is best of the solutions suggested here.
You can use Netscape Navigator
3.x , but note that text may be displayed incorrectly. Please read the remarks below
for more details.
If you are using non-Arabic Windows 95
Use Alis Tango Browser.
This solution is advised only if you don't have
Arabic Windows 95. You have to read the notes below to be able to read in Arabic.
Sindibad
Arabaization tool (form Sakhr) can be used with Netscape Navigator 4.x
Sindibad
Arabaization tool (form Sakhr) can be used with Netscape Navigator 3.x, and note that this is not a
complete Arabic solution
If you are using Arabic Windows 3.x
Use Netscape 16 bit Navigator 3.01. Again, some text may
be displayed incorrectly.
Why Arabic Text?
Now you may ask: why do not you just follow the others and display
the Arabic pages in your site as an image?
Loading time for the
Arabic text is much faster than waiting for the images to be downloaded
Using text, will help
you copying and pasting any paragraphs you wish into your documents.
If you have an
Arabic system, you can easily print the pages you would like to.
While the
Arabic material is entered as a text, you can definitely search the pages for any word in
your mind.
Developing the
Arabic pages, as images will be reflected on the size of material that we offer. In other
words, the more images are used, the less material is offered.
Finally, this
is the natural way of doing things!
Important notes for Netscape users:
If you can not read Arabic pages, please follow these
instructions:
Make sure that you
are running your browser under Arabic Windows. If not, download Sindibad first.
Run your
browser, choose Arabic mode if you are using Sindibad and go to one of our Arabic pages.
From Netscape,
Choose Options > General Preferences > Fonts.
Click the
"Choose Font" Button to change the default Proportional Font.
A Fonts Dialog
box will appear, choose an Arabic font (such as Traditional Arabic or Transparent Arabic)
from the list and choose a font size.
Click OK, the
Font dialog box will disappear.
Click OK to
save the changes.
Now you can
read the Arabic pages.
Important notes for Alis users:
Please follow these steps in order to read in Arabic using this
browser:
- Run Tango browser.
-Go to any of our Arabic pages.
-Choose LANGUAGE --> Character Sets from the main menu.
-Choose ARABIC to be the document language.
- A list of available Arabic character sets will be displayed
to the right of the languages list.
-Choose Arabic windows-1256 from the list.
-Click SELECT, then APPLY.
-Again Choose LANGUAGE
-Choose PREFERENCES and let the Arabic be the Promote
language. Click ok.
-Choose DIRECTION and select Direction to be Right To Left.
Now, you can read the Arabic text !, but please note that :
Text Displayed within
tables will not look very good, while you still can read it. the same is true in many
other cases.
We assume that
you have installed Tango browser probably, and you have chosen the Arabic support option.
You are not
able to see Java applets or run Java scripts..
MS Windows 95 Font Smoother
To improve the overall quality of fonts displayed on your screen,
regardless of your operating system, download and use MS Windows 95 font smoother. This
free utility from Microsoft makes your fonts display in a smoother, but work only if your
machine is set to 64K colors or more. |
