Avro Setup

1. Go to Avro Keyboard web site http://www.omicronlab.com/avro-keyboarddownload.html It will look like

2. Click on the green DOWNLOAD NOW image on the screen. You will be led to the screen shown on next page

3. Click on the Download Now area on the screen. It should start downloading. If your downloading is blocked, then a message will come near the top of your screen which will read like this : To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has blocked this site from downloading files to your computer. If you get this message, click on the message. A menu will come up. Choose “download file” option. 4. Then you will get this pop up window

5. Click on Run button. If the following window shows up, click Run on it

6. Depending on the speed of your internet connection, it will take a few minutes to download the 11 MB file. 7. While downloading it will show the progress bar

8. Once download has completed, if it asks you to ALLOW the program or cancel, click on Allow. Then the following screen should show up

9. Click Next You will get this window

10.Click on the circle (radio button) to the left of “I accept the agreement”. Then click Next. You will get the window below. Click next again.

11.On the next window, click Next again. Now you will get the following window

Make sure you click on the circle (radio button) next to “ Use Bangla (India) Language”. Then click Next. 12.You will now get this window

Click on Install button. 13.While installing , it will show the progress bar

14.When installation completes, you will get this window

Click on Finish button. 15.Set up is complete. Now you will get this screen to configure Avro

Click on Next

16.You will get this

Click Next 17.Next screen looks like

Make sure the check mark next to English (Unites States) or English (United kingdom) is checked like above. Then Click Next. 18.Next screen is

Select “English to Bangla Phonetic” and hit Next 19.On the next and final screen click Done button. 20.That’s it! You are now a proud owner of Avro keyboard.

How to use Avro to write Bangla? Go to next page

1. Avro has created several things on your computer. a) There is a bangla “a” icon on your Quick Launch area. b) There is a “avro” icon on your desktop c) Your start menu now has “Avro keyboard” option d) On top right of your desktop/laptop, you will see a transparent menubar. This is Avro menubar. 2. On the menubar , the first item says “English”. Click on it and it will say Bangla like বাংলা 3. Now you are ready to type in Bangla. Open your Microsoft Word 4. Make sure that on the Avro menu bar, it shows বাংলা and not English. If it shows English, click to change it 5. Now click on the little triangle (arrow) to the right of the word English or বাংলা on the menu bar. It will show a menu. Select “Show active keyboard layout”. 6. It will pop up the following screen on your computer

7. This screen shows what English letter you have to type in order to get a Bengali letter on your Word or Orkut or anywhere else. 8. On Word, type aj bangla likhbo . You should see আজ বাংলা িলখব 9. িক োবােডরর সাহােযয সহেজই বাংলা িলখেত পারেবন

10.The default bangla font on Microsoft Word is Vrinda. It is not very nice looking. A font that I like is Soleimanlipi. You can download it from http://www.omicronlab.com/bangla-fonts.html 11.Choose Soleimanlipi font, save it in your machine. Then go to the file on Windows explorer and right click. In the menu, choose Install. That’s it. 12.If you need further assistance in installing the font or anything else, let me know on the Aaj Sokaler Amontrone (আজ সকােলর আমনেণ) topic.