Help and Documentation for use of FontFreedom GaMaBhaNa Toolkit
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1. it is not so The complex nature of the available tools and the keyboard sequences offered by such tools has created this belief The popular keyboard layouts have emerged from the erstwhile QWERTY Typewriter as well as from the so called government initiatives to have a common keyboard across a language Sadly enough government could not come out with a commonly acceptable keyboard and that ultimately gave rise to various keyboard layouts like Typewriter DOE Inscript Phonetic 86 Phonetic 88 Anglo Nagari English Phonetic etc A few wise software developers popularized few keyboard layouts by their software name e g when you hear that someone is using Shree Lipi keyboard layout it s a misconception The keyboard layout is not that of Shree Lipi But using such tactics the vendors have tried to create a fleet of loyal users for their software who they thought would not go elsewhere In the in built tools available with Windows OS to work in Devnagari only a couple of such popular keyboard layouts are included One important fact is that ordinary people and online users are and have never been comfortable using keyboard layouts like INSCRIPT and such others provided within Windows People wanted something simpler Something that was simple to learn and use yet affordable to their pockets This is where both GaMaBhaNa and FontFreedom came to the rescue and offered some simple online and offline tools It was almost over 15 years back that w2. Help and Documentation for use of FontFreedom GaMaBhaNa Toolkit DS Marathi Website Marathi Articles Marathi People Marathi Web Portal Home Marathi News Marathi BI Microsoft Internet Explorer Ou DAO Px tym 8 SS CEOE E Overview Here is a toolbar with a difference It actually lets you do something that is close to your heart It lets you work in your own language With so many toolbars out there in the middle you may feel why do I need yet another toolbar The simple answer is FontFreedom GaMaBhana Tookit is the only toolbar available providing you the tools to enable you to type in your language on ANY webpage on the Internet Be it Google Yahoo Rediffmail Facebook Orkut You name it and FontFreedom GaMaBhaNa Toolkit comes your help Be it Hindi Marathi Gujrati or any other Indian Language you can work with the same ease Even if you haven t typed a single sentence in your language anytime before you can do it with the use of very easy typing interface All you need to do is type as you would have typed in English Over 400 000 people worldwide have been using our typing tools for last over a decade and are too happy about it FontFreedom is one of the most popular software to work in Devnagari script GaMaBhaNa is a leader in online typing tools Both these strong brands have already joined hands and brought out FontFreedom GaMaBhaNa Desktop Engine almost over a year back to enable you to work in your lang
3. ailable online Clicking the button Toolikit Help a webpage will open where you will find Quick Help to use the Toolbar You will also find link to the Detailed User Manual which can be downloaded You are strongly advised to download the detailed User Manual which is a PDF file print it and keep it handy so that you can extract the most out of the Toolbar Other Buttons and Icons Apart from being an enabler for Indian Language Typing while you are online the FontFreedom GaMaBhaNa Toolbar offers many other features like Gadgets for display of news and other contents periodic announcements and search on the web using various search engines Many more such gadgets are being added to the Toolkit and they will be automatically added to the Toolkit Announcement window on the Toolbar provides you latest announcements with respect to new happenings developments upgrades and at certain times few interesting offers that you won t be able to resist News Tab provides you an update on News and other interesting content These are updated regularly Using the Online Typing Tools As mentioned earlier you can use either G AMaBhaNa Phonetic FontFreedom English Phonetic INSCRIPT or Google Transliteration Keyboard to type your content through the Toolkit Selecting Language ie a The typing language can be selected using the Drop Down box HI Hindi provided on the Toolbar It supports Marathi Hindi Sanskrut pipe aia Bangala Gujarati P
4. e offered the most easy to learn and use software to work in Devnagari for a Price tag that was under Rs 300 Today a few other online and offline tools like Quillpad Baraha Google transliteration Microsoft Transliteration etc do exist Each of them uses a proprietary keyboard Layout However the users are more comfortable with the keyboard layouts they are accustomed to use No new user would go and learn INSCRIPT or Typewriter keyboard these days On the other hand there is lot of resistance from people from government sector to migrate from these two very old keyboard layouts We thought we should address this need and that evolved the idea of a Multi Keyboard Multi Language All in one online solution That is FontFreedom GaMaBhaNa Toolkit As mentioned earlier both FontFreedom and GaMaBhaNa are market leaders in offline and online typing tools there are thousands of users who are accustomed to use the simple keyboard layouts offered by these two leading tools However we know that there are people comfortable with Google Transliteration schema for searching on Google We also know that there may be some users who would be using keyboards like INSCRIPT also Thus we have included that also as a part of our toolkit In the days to come we shall be releasing add ons and upgrades with practically each available keyboard so that the entire cross section of the users will benefit Toolbar Overview Let s explore the FontFreedo
5. ices Typing Centers etc Google Transliteration Many of you might have used this tool sometime or the other while searching information on Google But you never got to use it while you were working on pages other than Google Search or Gmail Now we have brought you the functionality of typing using Google Transliteration Schema on ANY webpage on ANY website even though the site may not have facility to type in your language Isn t it nice Enable Typing gt Once the Typing Language and Keyboard is selected Click the Enable Button to Apply Enable the Typing Engine for all text boxes on the current web page All the text boxes where the Typing Engine is applied will be shown with pink dotted line borders Now you can start typing in your language ENJOY Toggle between Language and English While you are working on a text box and typing your contents in your language chances are you might need to type some English text and again come back to language An example of this is to type a web site address or e mail You can use the Toggle Button to toggle between your selected language and English IE users can use a hotkey as F9 or CTRL for the switching purpose Using Google Transliteration Schema For those of you who want to use the Google T Transliteration Schema for typing on pages other amia O aera than Google you can select the Google Transliteration Menu from Online Typing Tools Button You will then get indicatio
6. is available at just Rs 200 More details and purchase link is available on our website www cybershoppee com Document version 21 May 2011 20 55 CyberShoppee Chanakya 3 Floor Gokhale Road Naupada Thane 400602 Tel 91 22 25421185 25339003 E Mail support cybershoppee com Website www cybershoppee com
7. m GamaBhaNa Toolkit The image below depicts the toolkit as you would see on your browser mu wa CENEO cide ela ore gle E beets Cea a w O HOPA vrr i TooktHep PPT 2 RTS EN A aa a AET es ee Pe Viie In the image below the various components of the Toolbar are explained There are buttons for Online Typing Tools News Toolkit Help etc Toggle Languages Enable Toolkit Auto Enable Toolkit Help Language Keyboard The various icons on the Toolbar are explained here Language Selection m v The first thing that most of you will need to do is to select the language in which you would work Using this drop down you can choose the language Once chosen the Language selection will be stored as your default Thus you will not need to set the language every time Keyboard Selection IFF v The next important selection is the Keyboard We have four options here You may be familiar with some of these options Select the one which you are familiar with In case you have never worked in your language anytime before try using either Gamabhana Phonetic or FontFreedom Phonetic keyboard layout Both of them are very easy to learn and use Once chosen the Keyboard selection will be stored as your default Thus you will not need to set the language every time Enable Typing oO To be able to work in the language and keyboard of your choice you need to enable the text boxes on the current page where yo
8. n that the Google Transliteration is enabled on the web page Now click on any of the text box on the page When the Transliteration is applied to that text box the symbol as shown in the image will be seen in the text box Now you can start typing in your language using Google Transliteration schema Simple isn t it Working on websites Now you can work on ANY website in your language That s the power of FontFreedom GaMaBhaNa Toolkit Keyboard Help Typing in Indian Language is very easy Still however we have compiled a typing guide which will walk you through the typing sequences for both the keyboards This is available in a separate document Online Text Editors Apart from providing the facility to type in web based forms we have thought a step further and have offered you a facility to use all these keyboards in Simple text Editor and Rich Text Editor which is also integrated into the FontFreedom GaMaBhaNa Toolkit Using these you can now make documents in your own language and even save and store them on your PC to be used later e Simple Text Editor This offers basic functions of typing You can save the text as a TXT file e Rich Text Editor Using this you can decorate your document E g you can make letters and words bold italic color etc The document can be saved as RTF and can be later opened in word processors like MS Word etc Known issues and Solutions A few features do not work on certain version
9. rata The entire typing help is provided e FontFreedom English Phonetic Typing with this one is also extremely easy It s like typing in English but you need to use few keystrokes while working with this E g if you wanted to type ANa using this keyboard you would type Bart where B is for A a is for the matra 1 ris for lt and t is for a The entire typing help is provided e INSCRIPT This is a very popular keyboard layout of yesteryears Generally those learning to type in Devnagari prefer to work in Phonetics However those who have used some or the other keyboard earlier do not wish to change their habits Mostly the users of keyboard layouts such as INSCRIPT could be found in Government offices Typing Centers etc e Google Transliteration Many of you might have used this tool sometime or the other while searching information on Google But you never got to use it while you were working on pages other than Google Search or Gmail Now we have brought you the functionality of typing using Google Transliteration Schema on ANY webpage on ANY website even though the site may not have facility to type in your language Isn t it nice For those of you who would like to know a few more interesting aspects of keyboard layouts and what they mean to us and how do the affect our working here is some interesting information Typing in Indian Languages has always been considered to be difficult and cumbersome and what not In reality
10. s of browsers In case you notice any such issues please notify our support team so that we can provide solution on them Support You can contact our support team on the e mail Id provided in this document as well as on our support and contact pages We will try to resolve your problem in the shortest possible time Frequently asked questions and knowledge bases will be made available on the web site from time to time If you like our Toolkit please inform others If you don t like it please inform us so that we can take care of any pinching issues Your suggestions are welcome to keep the development ongoing Contributions As you are aware the Toolkit is made available for Free Download However we do not wish to make it a Support less product Support and updates are of vital importance We appeal you to contribute towards the project so that we can keep the development ongoing The contributions can be any amount as you may wish Contributions may be made using the secured payment gateway available on www cybershoppee com FontFreedom GaMaBhaNa IME In yet another interesting development we have offered a Multi Keyboard Multi lingual IME which enables you to work in any language of your choice in any of the supported keyboard layouts In any MS Windows based application that supports Unicode Thus now you can work directly in MS Office etc eliminating the need to the old copy paste method The IME is a supported product and
11. u have any issue on any website please inform us and we will get it working on your favorite website Installing the Toolkit Installing FontFreedom GaMaBhaNa Toolkit is very easy For Internet Explorer it s a setup file For Mozilla Firefox amp Chrome it s a plug in If you are installing on IE just run the setup and you are through in less than a minute Upgrade and Updates We shall be upgrading the Toolkit Features very frequently The contents also will get updated daily All these updates will come to you automatically In case of Toolkit features upgrades you will be notified in the message area right on the toolbar You have to just clear your browser cache and refresh the toolbar once to let the changes take place In fact the Toolkit is so intelligent that every time you start your browser afresh the changes will be synchronized All the contents like News Fresh Blog Articles etc are web based Thus as and when we update the contents you will get the fresh contents automatically Online Typing Tools Currently many different keyboards are in use for working in our languages While we shall bring a solution for users of all kinds of keyboards here is the start We have included four of the most popular typing keyboard schemas These are e Gamabhana Phonetics Typing with this layout is very easy You have to type as you would have typed in English So if you wanted to type Nd using this you would type it as bhaa
12. u want to type in your language Once the Typing Language and Keyboard is selected Click the Enable Buton to Apply Enable the Typing Engine for all text boxes on the current web page All the text boxes where the Typing Engine is applied will be shown with pink dotted line borders Now you can start typing in your language ENJOY Note On certain instances on some of the websites the textboxes may not get enabled for typing in the language This is because of the nature of scripting used on the page In case you find such an occurrence please do let us know the website details so that we can track and offer upgrade and solutions Toggle between Your Language and English While you are working on a text box and typing your contents in your language chances are you might need to type some English text and again come back to language An example of this is to type a web site address or e mail You can use the Toggle Button to toggle between your selected language and English IE users can use a hotkey as F9 or CTRL for the switching purpose Auto Enable the Language Typing To be able to type in your language on the particular webpage you need to enable the toolbar every time the page loads However you can set this to be done automatically on each page load If this option is enabled the typing will be enabled automatically on each page with your last language and keyboard selection Toolkit Help The entire Help is av
13. uage in any of your Windows based favorite program Now with the launch of FontFreedom GaMaBhaNa Toolkit we bring the online conveniences to you Apart from being just a set of Typing Tools FontFreedom GaMaBhaNa Toolkit has much more in store for you It has India specific contents links to resources and much more It also has a Text Editor and rich Text Editor using which you can prepare your documents in your language without the need of any other editor The application is very light weight Just about 2 MB download for Internet Explorer and just under 100KB plug in for Firefox and Chrome Browser Compatibility FontFreedom GaMaBhaNa Toolkit is compatible with Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Safari and Google Chrome Almost all versions of these popular browsers are supported Just in case you find some of the version not being compatible you can always get back to us and we will make the compatibility available for you We also support popular OS platforms covering Linux Windows and Mac What can you do with FontFreedom GaMaBhaNa Tookit You can do a lot with this Toolkit Most importantly you can communicate with your friends near n dear ones in your language that too from any website or mailing system which does not have any facility to type in your language It Works well with websites like Facebook Blogspot Blogger Gmail Orkut Google Search Rediffmail Webmail Yahoo All Newspapers All Portals All Blogs In case yo
14. unjabi Kannada Malyalam Odiya Tamil Telugu GJ Gujarati 5 PN Punjabi and Urdu Scripts ML Malayalam 0D Odiya i f TM Temil changed The selection may be wiped if the Browser Cache is deleted rs Telugu TTR sra The selected language will be retained as default unless it is Selecting Keyboard You can select the keyboard using the Drop Down Menu provided on the Toolbar Currently 4 of the popular keyboard layouts are supported Support for more is being added FF fontfreedon IS inscript GL google trans GaMaBhaNa Phonetics Keyboard Typing with this layout is very easy You have to type as you would have typed in English So if you wanted to type ANa using this you would type it as bhaarata The entire typing help is provided FontFreedom English Phonetic Keyboard Typing with this one is also extremely easy It s like typing in English but you need to use few keystrokes while working with this E g if you wanted to type ARA using this keyboard you would type Bart where B is for 4 a is for the matra 21 ris for lt and t is for a The entire typing help is provided INSCRIPT This is a very popular keyboard layout of yesteryears Generally those learning to type in Devnagari prefer to work in Phonetics However those who have used some or the other keyboard earlier do not wish to change their habits Mostly the users of keyboard layouts such as INSCRIPT could be found in Government off
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