Here's an update.
After consulting with debian-legal, I emailed Bigelow and Holmes
tonight to ask them to reconsider the license they have chosen so that
they can be included in debian. If anyone is interested, I can post
that email here.
I've ITP'd the one latin ttf font I know of which is not
> As for quality of X Type1 rasterizer, I believe that it is a temporary
> problem. At least one Type1 renderer, gv, has no problems with visual
> quality, so this is not a fundamental flaw, just another challenge.
To get the quality, gv uses antialiasing, doesn't it?
But X core protocol doesn't s
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 05:57:47PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> until you try and learn and try again. The first glyphs you'll do (or
> >> the first fonts, ftm) will be total crap. But you certainly won't
> >> produce a fine font if you give
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you write a Free Software application that needs to display text,
> but you omit a good font, it's useless.
So all text editors should come with their own font?!
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Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> until you try and learn and try again. The first glyphs you'll do (or
>> the first fonts, ftm) will be total crap. But you certainly won't
>> produce a fine font if you give up before trying.
>
> Fine, try it.
I am trying, only with a music font, as
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 05:39:13PM +0300, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote:
> BA> Portability.
>
> Can you elaborate? Which of Debian-supported platforms to not have Type1
> fonts support, and why?
You are focusing on the wrong problem. Application designers choose
TrueType for portability. SDL applica
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:15:30AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
BA> But the pfaedit docs say that "PfaEdit will degrade the appearance
BA> of most truetype fonts" with the exception being those that are not
BA> hinted at all.
Aha, that is why Valek had to manually adjust hinting. Well, this mean
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 02:09:35PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> You won't find out if there's good enough talent hiding inside you
> until you try and learn and try again. The first glyphs you'll do (or
> the first fonts, ftm) will be total crap. But you certainly won't
> produce a fine font
15.08.2002 pisze Ben Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Can someone explain what is the problem with switching to Type1
> > altogether?
> Portability.
Portability and the quality of the Type1 rasterizer in X, I'd say.
Jubal
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:36:42PM +0300, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote:
> Actually, I don't see why we should use TrueType fonts instead of Type1
> fonts. There is a set of excellent Type1 fonts from URW included in
> gsfonts package under GPL; there is an extension of these fonts with
> Cyrillic glyphs
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:10:08AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
AT>> I wonder if we could share this problem with the TeX community.
AT>> Those people might have the same problem. Perhaps some Metafont to
AT>> Truetype converter might do the trick??? Just an idea.
MC> I've contacted some people
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Do we really need a font author? How about just starting a project and
>> learning how to make our own tt fonts?
>
> A good font is a work of art. Your suggestion can be paraphrased, "how
> about just starting a project and learning how to make our own
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 05:28:48PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> Do we really need a font author? How about just starting a project and
> learning how to make our own tt fonts?
A good font is a work of art. Your suggestion can be paraphrased, "how
about just starting a project and learning how
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:10:30AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> My main concern at this point is that it may be infeasible to generate
> high quality truetype fonts without using apple's patented truetype
> instructions (which is only a small subset of instructions, but they
> are commonly used
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:10:30AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
[..]
> I've contacted some people, to see if anyone knows of any public
> domain, high quality true type fonts. Also pfaedit seems like it might
> be able to generate good truetype fonts, but it's hinting code needs
> some work.
Th
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:19:21AM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote:
> > Are there any 'opensource' font authors out
> > there doing anthing interesting?
>
> Some GPL TT fonts:
>
> http://www.ntrnet.net/~jmknoble/fonts/README
>
> It also points to an application he used to create them.
These are not
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:19:21AM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 06:48:06PM -0500, Scott Dier wrote:
>
> Some GPL TT fonts:
>
> http://www.ntrnet.net/~jmknoble/fonts/README
Forget about it. My mistake: no TT.
J
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 06:48:06PM -0500, Scott Dier wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 20:01, Martin Sarsale wrote:
>
> Are there any 'opensource' font authors out
> there doing anthing interesting?
>
Some GPL TT fonts:
http://www.ntrnet.net/~jmknoble/fonts/README
It also points to an application
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Which is why it would be better for someone to donate their time and
>> make some free as in speech fonts.
> I wonder if we could share this problem with the TeX community. Those
> people might have the same problem. Perhaps some Metafont to Truetype
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 08:34:54AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Michael Cardenas wrote:
>
> > Do we really need a font author? How about just starting a project and
> > learning how to make our own tt fonts?
> Font creation is kind of a science. I'm really no expert but when
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> Do we really need a font author? How about just starting a project and
> learning how to make our own tt fonts?
Font creation is kind of a science. I'm really no expert but when I
spend some time in TeX and Metafont some years ago I've learned that
i
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 05:28:48PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
...
> 2001-12-21. Also, there is no license provided for the fonts.
>
...
The fonts and the metatype software are gpl'ed.
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 06:48:06PM -0500, Scott Dier wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 20:01, Martin Sarsale wrote:
>
> > Since micro$oft stopped giving their true type fonts for free
> > (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm), msttcorefonts
> > is unusable :(
>
> It would be i
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 20:01, Martin Sarsale wrote:
> Since micro$oft stopped giving their true type fonts for free
> (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm), msttcorefonts is
> unusable :(
It would be interesting to investigate either if a font author could be
convinced to cr
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> Since micro$oft stopped giving their true type fonts for free
> (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm), msttcorefonts is
> unusable :(
>
reassigning this bug to the appropriate package
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Package: general
Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-12
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Justification: renders package unusable
Since micro$oft stopped giving their true type fonts for free
(http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm), msttcorefonts is
unusable :(
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