Pada Software
{{ infobox software | name = Pada Software | screenshot = | caption = | developer = Lohith D Shivamurthy | latest_release_version = 4.1 | latest_release_date = November 19, 2012 | operating_system = Microsoft Windows | genre = Word processor, IME (Input Method Engine), Dictionary(Kannada) | license = Freeware / Proprietary | website = http://www.pada.pro }}
'Pada' means a ‘Word‘ in Kannada language. The software is a collection of tools for Indic scripts, like simple Word processor, script converter, Input Method Engine (IME) etc. For Kannada script, few additional features are available.
Languages supported
Along with ANSI (English), the following Indic unicode scripts are supported,
- Kannada
- Devanagari
- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Malayalam
- Oriya
- Tamil
- Telugu
Features
- Available for both Linux & Windows.
- Auto-completion of words while typing.
- Four Keyboard layouts: Phonetic Layout – For Beginners, Phonetic-2 – For Intermediate, Nudi (KP Rao) Layout – For Advanced, Transliteration – Similar to google transliteration.
- Create & Edit following type of documents: Plain text, Rich text, HTML
- Create PDF documents.
- Online Wiktionary support – Using this you may find the words definition from Wiktionary project.
- PadaKosha – Offline dictionary for Kannada(only) language. English – Kannada, Kannada-Kannada. Contains more than 2 lakh (2 hundred thousand) words already.
- Find & Replace : Friendly Find & Replace for both Unicode and ANSI.
- Script-Converter: Convert script from one Indic script to another. Also supports ANSI(English) to Indic Unicode conversion.
- Spell Check : Spell check support for Kannada script. Easily extendible to any other Indic script.
- Pada-IME : Using which could write Indic scripts directly in any other windows application. For ex: Emails, Notepad, WordPad, MS Word, MS Excel, FireFox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome etc.