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Required and Recommended Downloads for THL Use

Contributor(s): Than Grove

The following sections provide concise lists of software and resources either required for viewing THL or recommended for scholars and students of the Tibetan and Himalayan region.

Required Downloads

This is a list of required software needed to view THL and use its resources:

• Adobe Acrobat: Download Adobe Acrobat
• Flash Player: Download Adobe Flash
• Java: Download Java
• QuickTime: Download Standalone QuickTime Player
• Unicode Diacritic Font: Download Times Extended Roman diacritic font (view page)
• Unicode Tibetan Font:
  • Tibetan Machine Uni Font (view page)
  • Jomolhari Unicode Font (view page)
• Web Browser:
  • Firefox
  • Safari
  • Internet Explorer
  • Netscape

Recommended Downloads

This is the list of recommended software for viewing THL resources:

• Tibetan Input Method: Tise (view page)
• Tibetan Editor and Font-Converter: Jskad (view page)
• Tibetan Transcript Editor: QuillDriver (view page)
• VRML Viewer:
  • Cortona
  • Download Cosmo

Provided for unrestricted use by the Tibetan and Himalayan Library