QWord - Quran Word, for digital composing and printing of Quran. Now it is possible to print the Quran digitally and saves almost 2 years of manual composing by the “Katib”. The Urdu composing tools have been added along with to add Urdu translations. This product is a joint venture of AZ Grafix and NeoSense.
Only a publishers version is available at the moment. The current version requires you to have WindowsXP and Microsoft Office Installed and thus raising the price of ownership of this package. Next version, for Linux and OpenOffice, will be made available arround June.
What is QWord?
Qword is a plugin Package for Microsoft Word giving you not only all of the data of Quran in the digital format but a few translations as well. So its kind of a complete publishing solution for designing a page with one Ayat, one Sura, one Para or the Quran.
You can do the borders layout, make tables and can vertually do any thing which has been available to the users of MS Word only, and all of the data can be exported to CorelDraw, Adobe or any of the popular packages for further refining the design.
Why QWord is different from the other packages in the market?
The other packages in the market use the technology provided by InPage, which can not be compared to the features offered by MSWord. Since this application is a plugin package, inherting all of the features offered by MS Word, hence it offers much flexibility in manipulating your design.
Because of the compliance with the well established standard for its editing features and porting of data across other applications, QWord, esentially stands different than any other in the market.
Comments 1
Dear Mr. Mohsin HIjazee,
Thankyou Mr. HIjazee for the enlightening information but we are the lovely people who make these so to speak “technically ignorant bureaucrat” out of a lovely person with all of the wishes and desires to do some good for the rest. They also come from the same linage of the human race but are deployed inefficiently by a retarded system. So, its not the bureaucrats, its the system rather which needs an over-hauling.
I had worked on the project of QWord with Mr. Niazi and during that period we not only came across all of technical details for manipulating the fonts, but we even succeeded in using these technical details to circumvent certain limitations inherited by OTF and so to speak established standards of Unicode for right to left languages. Mr. Niazi, himself, a master of kerning details, can very well explain and can perhaps provide all of the technical details as well.
Its nice to learn that you are the developer of Pak Nastaleeq. Well, I see an enormous use of urdu fonts on the net in the near future. So, if you need any references which we collected along the way, while developing QWord, I’ll be happy to make them available to all of you people in the field of development and perhaps can help by pointing out the common mistakes and/or by guiding if possible.