Arabic-L:GEN:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion

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Date: 18 Apr 2008
From:A Clarke <bookwright at bogvaerker.dk>
Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion

An-Nashir as-Sahafi is actually a desktop publishing programme, and  
its file format can only be opened by other versions of the programme.  
If he can export them as RTF or some other word processor format such  
as MS Word doc, then you should have no problems opening them in  
Nisus. They have updated an-Nashir for Mac OS X, but as you are using  
Nisus Writer Pro you don't need to follow that route.

Regards,
Abdassamad Clarke
Bookwright

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Date: 18 Apr 2008
From: "raram" <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion

Marhaban Rose:
Contact Al-Nashir al-Sahafi office in London for guidance to convert  
documents from old Mac to Macbook. I'm sorry I'm far away from my  
office to give you their telephone number.
Good luck,
Raji Rammuny

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3)
Date: 18 Apr 2008
From:"Rahawi, Mohammed A" <RahawiMA at state.gov>
Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion

Al-Nashir Al-Sahafi can save in rtf format. Your friend can save any
file he wants to give you in rtf, making sure of using the standard
fonts, such as Geeza or Albayan. You shouldn't have any problem opening
the rtf files with Nisus.
Hope this helps.
Mohammed Rahawi

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4)
Date: 18 Apr 2008
From:"Knut S. Vikør" <knut.vikor at ahkr.uib.no>
Subject:Old Mac to New Mac Conversion

Al-Nashir al-Sahafi and similar less-used programs create some  
problems, in that few regular applications such as Nisus have import  
filters for them.

I am not aware of any program that can import Nashir files with all  
formatting. However, since Dilworth apparently has access to InDesign  
ME, perhaps you could ask him to check its import choices; that is the  
program that would be most likely to have an import filter. InDesign  
is e.g. the only program that can import WinText files (that made,  
however, by the same company WinSoft, unlike Nashir), and they are in  
much the same layout/publishing market as Nashir. There are still  
Arabic newspaper being produced in Nashir, so there may also be users  
of it around, although it is a fairly dated program now.

Otherwise, if he still has access to the original Nashir application,  
he would have to save the documents (or the texts in them) as text- 
only files, and use Nisus or other OS X programs to open the files,  
making sure to set the encoding to "Arabic (Mac)" when opening them,  
to get the Arabic letters right.

Knut

[note from Dilworth: I checked the help file and Indesign ME doesn't  
claim to have a filter for Al-Nashir.  That doesn't necessarily mean  
they don't have one, however.  If someone wants to send me an Al- 
Nashir file, I can actually try it.]

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