Features

Lipikar is a desktop authoring tool for non-English languages. It has been designed primarily for users of non-English or foreign fonts on Windows™.

Through its unique interface, Lipikar strives to take away the grind of remembering which character of a particular font corresponds to which key (or keys) on the keyboard, thus making foreign language text-entry a simple task for novices and power-users alike.

Created for academics and serious users, Lipikar has the following built-in features for your convenience:

• A mouse-hover sensitive zoom window
  See any character/letter clearly before using it
• Complete character layout with mouse input feature
  No need to remember Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Key combinations
• Font-based text search
  Search your text with the font it was written with
• Text save to / load from
  Save your work now to load it later if you are short of time
• FontBrowser
  Browse through previews of all the installed fonts
• Custom FontMap Editor
  Create/save/load your own layout of FontMap by picking only the letters you need and arranging them around
• Keyboard Map Viewer
  Find out which key on your keyboard is mapped to which character of any font

So that you know them clearly before you decide to download:

• Unicode (extended) or DBCS fonts are not supported
  Supports only normal ANSI/ASCII range of characters from ASC(32)/HEX(20) through ASC(255)/HEX(FF) for all Windows™ bitmap fonts.
• Font files in other folders cannot be used
  Works only with fonts already installed by Windows in your Windows\Fonts folder.
  
• Does not display a virtual keyboard layout for typing
  Lipikar is actually a better alternative to it. In this context, please remember that Lipikar's built-in Keyboard Layout Viewer is only for informational purpose and is not interactive.
  
• It is not a word-processor
  Lipikar's text formatting capability is limited. A single font with its color, styles (bold, italics) and effects (underline, strikethrough) can be applied to the entire text file, which is limited to about 60,000 characters.