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Tamil software -Leap Office launched by C-DAC

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The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has introduced an office software with Tamil spell check, e-mail facility and

dictionary called Leap Office. This is an independent Tamil word-processing and Windows

based Tamil interface software developed in accordance with the standards recommended by

the state Government at the TamilNet Conference.

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Inaugurating the software launch, C-DAC Director N.

Chandrasekaran said that they were working on a three-tier environment integrating

servers, high-speed switching, ASCII standards, fonts, super computing, distributed

computing, etc.

Users of Leap Office software can avail tools such as

learning to type Tamil without previous experience, write error-free multi-lingual

documents, exchange e-mails and fax messages, store design and content, create documents,

translate words and phrases from English and extend other Windows applications.

C-DAC is

planning to make a light downloadable version available free on the net and the larger

version will also be available free but after a little more time.

C-DAC also announced the launch of its Graphics and

Intelligence-based Script Technology products - NTrans and ISM conforming to the new

coding standards in Tamil and an Indian Language software development kit.

N-Trans is a utility that can convert English Databases

(name and address fields) to Indian languages and vice versa. This can be used for

creating bilingual databases where entry can be done in one language and converted to

another, which is useful for telephone directories, voters list, land records. The Indian

language Script Manager is an interface that harnesses the strength of Windows or

Macintosh based packages like CorelDraw, 3D studio, Quark, Xpress, Power Point. ISM has

the Indian Script Font Code (ISFC) Script manager with a large number of quality fonts.

The GIST SDK is the Indian language software development

kit to develop applications on Windows 95 and Windows NT and uses Microsoft's ActiveX

technology to provide an Indian language layer to the applications. It is based on the

Component Object Model (COM) standards.

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