Now you can avail NHM Converter facilities over online too. Since NHM Converter is browser reliant, now you have NHM converter specifically for Linux, Mac operating systems too. In the beginning, Suratha‘s Pongu Tamil was the only available tool.
The down-loadble version is available for Windows. Soon the Linux version will be made available.
Some of the distinctive features of NHM converter are:
1. Embedded fonts. You don’t need to install any fonts.
2. Speed of the conversion as conversion takes place at client side. We used NHM converter for the Tamil Wiktionary Automation project and it helped us convert font encoding of large MB files with ease.
3. Auto detect encoding
4. Extendability
5. Sometimes it will be helpful, if you want to type in a 8 -bit encoding without any font. (another usage of font embedding feature)
