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
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 05:28:48PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
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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, 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
it
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 I
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 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 he
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 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 truetype
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.
There
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 in
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 to
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 sistine
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, to
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 by
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 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 if
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 means
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
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 a
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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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 up before
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
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 20:01, Martin Sarsale wrote:
Since micro$oft stopped giving their true type fonts for free
(http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm), msttcorefonts is
unusable :(
It would be interesting to investigate either if a font author could be
convinced to
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 06:48:06PM -0500, Scott Dier wrote:
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 20:01, Martin Sarsale wrote:
Since micro$oft stopped giving their true type fonts for free
(http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm), msttcorefonts
is unusable :(
It would be
Package: general
Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-12
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Justification: renders package unusable
Since micro$oft stopped giving their true type fonts for free
(http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm), msttcorefonts is
unusable :(
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reassign 156503 msttcorefonts
thanks
Since micro$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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Bug#156503: microsoft changed its policy, msttcorefonts broken
Bug reassigned from package `general' to `msttcorefonts'.
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