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Application
The editor is distributed as a platform-independent JAR file. You can download The official version from the following location:
There may be snapshot releases as unofficial releases, which may add some experimental feature or some bug fixes. You can download snapshot releases from this page, when available. But, please be warned that the snapshot releases may be unstable and untested.
- Download Latest Snapshot Version of Bongolipi Editor [Build: February 3 2010 (201002031102)]
- Added Unicode suport, still experimenal (The package comes with few Bangla Unicode fonts)
- r-y cannot be rendered properly
- Khanda-t is not properly rendered on certain font-platform combination. Though most of the fonts render it properly. For example, if you use SolaimanLipi on Ubuntu, it come as a square box. However, SolaimanLipi on Windows render it just fine. We recomend using FreeSans or FreeSerif for Unicode typing, at least for testing. The Unicode fonts that is capable of rendering bangla on you system will be marked with " [Unicode]" prefix in your font dropdown list.
- PDF export with Unicode font is broken. Resulting PDF will be gibberish. This is a shortcoming of the underlying PDF export library which has not implemented the utility for the Indic fonts yet.
- Fixes Bug 2944642 Exception on OSX
- Fixes Bug 2550731 Change font voids space and line break
- Fixes Bug 2559727 Cannot write j`Naa in guruchandali
- Fixes Bug 2563139 Writing 'spliT' splits word
- Fixes 'Paste Special' which was broken while fixing Bug 2550731
- Fixes Bug 2580712 Cannot write some ja-phala word
Fonts
The Bongolipi Editor installer will install the required fonts in the correct location. So, you do not need to download or install font files manually. However, if for some unforeseen technical reasons you need the supported Bengali font files (ttf), download the font package, unzip the files and put them in your font folder.
System Requirement
- Java runtime version 5 (1.5) or better. (Note for Ubuntu users: There is a bug in Java 5 on Ubuntu which makes the editor inoperable on Ubuntu with Java 5. Ubuntu users need to to run Java 6. Or better, when the 'better' comes out).
- 6MB diskspace
Installation
- Save the downloaded JAR file on your desktop.
- Double-click on the JAR file to launch the installer.
- If you want to launch the installer from the command prompt:
- cd to the directory where your installer JAR file is saved (example: C:/My Documents/Desktop/)
- Type: java -jar BongolipiInstall.jar. This will launch the installer.
- Follow the instructions in the installer.
Uninstallation
We recommend you uninstall the application completely before reinstalling or installing a new version.
- Go to your install directory (example: C:/Program Files/Bongolipi/)
- Go to Uninstaller directory (example: C:/Program Files/Bongolipi/Uninstaller)
- Double-click on the uninstaller.jar file
- If you want to launch the uninstaller from the command prompt:
- cd to the Uninstaller directory (example: C:/Program Files/Bongolipi/Uninstaller)
- Type: java -jar uninstaller.jar. This will launch the uninstaller.
- Follow the instructions in the uninstaller
Launch
If you choose, the installer will create a Shortcut launcher on your desktop as well as in your Start menu. To launch the editor, simply double click on the Shortcut launcher icon.
Special Note for Mac users
We do not know how to programmatically create a launcher in the Mac Dock. (If you know, please send us a note.) To launch the editor, you have to open a file manager and browse to the directory where you asked the installer to install bongolipi, for example, /home/foo/BonGoLipi. You will find an executable script called Bongolipi.sh in that folder. Double click on the file to launch the editor. *nix and Windows users can also launch application in the same way (the script name for Windows is Bongolipi.bat.
