FontConvert

FontConvert allows the user to convert the text from one font to another.

Baraha Kan New - Kannada font used in older versions of Baraha
Baraha Devanagari - Devanagari font used in older versions of Baraha
Shree-Kan-0850 - Kannada font from ShreeLipi
SHREE_DECCAN - Kannada font used in Prajavani news paper.
KN-TTUma - Kannada font from CDAC
KNW-TTUma - Kannada font used in Kannadaprabha news paper
AkrutiKndPadmini - Kannada font from Akruti

Clicking Down Arrow button will convert the text from top window and shows in the bottom window.
Clicking Up Arrow button will convert the text from bottom window and shows in the top window.

Conversion Type:
Select the type of conversion depending on which, the appropriate source and destination font names are shown for the top and bottom windows.

Paste Button:
Clicking Paste button will paste the text from the clipboard into the respective window.

Copy Button:
Clicking Copy button will copy the contents of the respective window to the clipboard.

Proxy Font:
If specified, proxy font is used for the converted text. This font should have the same encoding as the destination font.

Palin Text:
FontConvert uses the font information of the rich text (RTF) to identify and convert the required portions of the input text. But, sometimes when user copies the text from other applications (ex: Internet Explorer) to FontConvert, the font information in the copied text may be missing. In such cases, selecting this check box indicates that the text is unformatted plain text, and FontConvert will convert the entire text.

View ANSI:
Clicking this button opens the document in ANSI format in a separate window.

View UNICODE:
Clicking this button opens the document in UNICODE format in a separate window.

Notes:

• During the conversion process, the unknown characters are converted to ? (ASCII 63) character. user will have to search for these characters in the output and manually correct them if required.
• When you copy text from MS Office applications to FontConvert, Sometimes, few characters may not be copied properly. In such cases, copying the text to Notepad (or Wordpad) and from Notepad to FontConvert program fixes this problem.