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Dataflow

Mumbai-based Indian software company, est. 1985. They write about themselves: The first one to introduce the Indian languages to computers in 1986. Font subpage. The company offers no downloads, but has pages that show samples of fonts called Yogesh (for Marathi) and Natraj (for Sanskrit)---these are part of their software packages. Fonts shown in PDF files include MSTT31c390, MSTT31c2df, MSTT31c285, and Natraj (1993-2000, Dataflow). Their fonts, all part of their DTP packagesm cover Hindi-Marathi (Devanagari), Gujarati, Oriya, Bengali, Assamese, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Gurumukhi, Urdu, Malayalam, and Punjabi. Alternate URL to Devyani.

Rajiv Bhagwat wrote me about the historical importance of Dataflow/Devyani: Our files hold the first ever digitised Devanagari character ("ma" to be exact) and its laser printout. It was hand digitised by measuring the co-ordinates from a graph paper and creating a single character postscript type 3 font. We purchased the artworks for commercial fonts Natraj&Yogesh by paying hefty sums to ITR, Pune; and digitised these using in-house programs. Elsewhere on my own site I mention that Akruti has been the victim of piracy. But Bhagwat is quick to add that Akruti itself is the first ever piracy of our Natraj. We were too small to take them to court.

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