Instructions for Viewing Arabic Text

  • If you are using Arabic Windows 95

Option 1: Microsoft Arabic Internet Explorer 3.02 and above.

Option 2 : Sindbad Arabization tool from Sakhr can be used with either Netscape Navigator 3.0 or 3.01. It has a lot of advantages over Arabic Microsoft Explorer, such as Arabic e-mail and Arabic chat. To download the latest version please visit http://www.sakhr.com.

  • If you are using non-Arabic Windows 95

Sindbad Arabization tool form Sakhr can be used with either Netscape Navigator 3.0 or 3.01. It has a lot of advantages over Arabic Microsoft Explorer, such as Arabic e-mail and Arabic chat. To download the latest version please visit http://www.sakhr.com.

  • If you are using Arabic Windows 3.x

Use Netscape 16 bit Navigator 3.01 but note that some text may be displayed incorrectly. Also you might need to read the following notes to configure the browser to display Arabic text.

  • Important notes for Netscape users:

If you cannot read Arabic pages, please follow these instructions:

  1. Make sure that you are running your browser under Arabic Windows.
  2. Run your browser, choose Arabic mode if you are using Sindbad and go to one of our Arabic pages.
  3. From Netscape, Choose Options > General  Preferences > Fonts.
  4. Click the "Choose Font" button to change the default Proportional Font.
  5. 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.
  6. Click OK, the Font dialog box will disappear.
  7. Click OK to save the changes .
  8. Finally, please change to User-Defined encoding from the View pull-down menu (or from the Options menu in Navigator 3.x) to see your changes take effect (the font's you specified earlier should also be for User-Defined, not Western fonts).
  9. Now you should be able to read the Arabic text.
  • 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.

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