Nastaliq Navees ( ''{{transl, Arab, Nastaʿlīq Writer'') is a

Nasta'liq ''Nastaliq'' (; fa, , ), also romanized as ''Nastaʿlīq'', is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script in the Persian and Urdu languages, often used also for Ottoman Turkish poetry, rarely for Arabic. ''Nast ...

-script font created by SIL's Jonathan Kew for the Macintosh platform. It requires

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, or System 7.5-7.6 with

QuickDraw GX QuickDraw GX was a replacement for the QuickDraw (QD) 2D graphics engine and Printing Manager inside the classic Mac OS. Its underlying drawing platform was a resolution-independent object oriented retained mode system, making it much easier for ...

installed to render correctly, and is the only functional Nasta'liq font on the Mac platform. On Leopard it will render slightly incorrectly
as seen here
, whilst on Tiger and earlier versions of Mac OS X it will cause a crash. Only the MacArabic-encoded font ("Nastaliq Navees A.suit") will work on Mac OS X as the

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-encoded one does not correctly map to

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. Version 2.0.2 is available under the

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, and includes FontLab and FontForge source files, but is otherwise unchanged from the 1997-era 2.0.1 version.

External resources

Nastaliq Navees download page
at the

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Nastaliq typefaces

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