Old fonts, old files, and getting a filing right
Written for advocates rather than for developers, and honest about what does not work. Everything here comes from documents we have actually had to read.
Why your Gujarati document opens as gibberish
Your file does not contain Gujarati. It contains English letters, and a font that draws them as Gujarati. Here is what that means and how to fix it.
ReadConverting LMG fonts to Unicode
LMG-Arun, LMG-Rupen and the rest are among the most common fonts in Gujarati legal practice. What converts today, what does not, and why.
ReadConverting Amiga and Harikrishna documents
Twenty typist faces share one encoding — Amiga Deep, Amiga Patrika, Harikrishna and seventeen more. If your document uses any of them, it converts.
ReadWhy old .doc files fail where .docx works
A Word 97–2003 .doc is a completely different format from a .docx. Most online tools cannot open one at all. Here is what changes and what survives.
ReadWhich Gujarati fonts we convert — and which we refuse
An honest list. Every font we can convert, every font we recognise but will not guess at, and the reason we draw the line where we do.
ReadPreparing a Gujarati filing in Unicode
Courts and government portals increasingly expect Unicode rather than typist fonts. What that means in practice for a document you are about to file.
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