[OT] MES-2 [Was: Re: Linux Fonts]

2002-08-19 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 06:25:28PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: free high quality variable width font. Dustimo could become base of such a font, if it covered at least MES-2 repertoire (maybe without Georgian and Armenian characters for the beginning). Just out of interest, what is MES-2?

Re: [OT] MES-2 [Was: Re: Linux Fonts]

2002-08-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 11:11:06PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 06:25:28PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: free high quality variable width font. Dustimo could become base of such a font, if it covered at least MES-2 repertoire (maybe without Georgian and Armenian

Re: Linux Fonts

2002-08-18 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:07:47AM -0700, Dustin Mofos wrote: Sorry, what I think of as a full character set is defineatly not what someone else might think of as a full set (I only have experience with english text).. As far as the characters you mentioned specifically they should be there,

Re: Linux Fonts

2002-08-18 Thread Ari Makela
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:07:47AM -0700, Dustin Mofos wrote: As far as the characters you mentioned specifically they should be there, in fact I can see them using Dustismo right now (except for ?? which I have no idea what they are). Thanks much for the link, I can see now that I am

Re: Linux Fonts

2002-08-18 Thread Dustin Norlander
Thanks for the screenshot. I must say that it looks terrible. As I said before I embedded bitmaps instead of doing the hinting, and I found out from the XFree86 mailing list that its font renderer does not support embedded bitmaps. So I guess its back to the drawing (hinting) board. Just

Re: Linux Fonts

2002-08-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 20:55, Dustin Norlander wrote: http://www.cheapskatefonts.com/Dustismo_screenshot.jpg Especially at smaller sizes, that needs some kerning adjustments. !@ looks horrible, for example, at least at 10pt and below. At 8pt most every letter runs into each other. But, it's

Linux Fonts

2002-08-15 Thread Dustin Mofos
Hello all, Thanks everyone for the advice on what license to release my font under. I looked at all the options and decided to just go with the standard GPL. I have spent a lot of time on this font and it is nearly done. it is a pretty standard sans-serif set, including all the accent and

Re: Linux Fonts

2002-08-15 Thread Jesus Climent
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 06:47:21AM -0700, Dustin Mofos wrote: Hello all, Thanks everyone for the advice on what license to release my font under. I looked at all the options and decided to just go with the standard GPL. Great! Do you have any example of the font on your web page? I have

Re: Linux Fonts

2002-08-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 06:47:21AM -0700, Dustin Mofos wrote: Download the font here: http://www.cheapskatefonts.com/fonts/Dustismo.zip Hm. I tried dropping it in as a replacement for tuxpaint's current font (simply by renaming the fonts in /usr/share/tuxpaint/fonts out of the way and copying

Re: Linux Fonts

2002-08-15 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 06:47:21AM -0700, Dustin Mofos wrote: Hello all, Thanks everyone for the advice on what license to release my font under. I looked at all the options and decided to just go with the standard GPL. I have spent a lot of time on this font and it is nearly done.

Re: Linux Fonts

2002-08-15 Thread Dustin Mofos
Sorry, what I think of as a full character set is defineatly not what someone else might think of as a full set (I only have experience with english text).. As far as the characters you mentioned specifically they should be there, in fact I can see them using Dustismo right now (except for 

Re: Linux Fonts

2002-08-15 Thread Michael Cardenas
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 06:47:21AM -0700, Dustin Mofos wrote: Hello all, Thanks everyone for the advice on what license to release my font under. I looked at all the options and decided to just go with the standard GPL. Great! In this thread: Bug#156503: microsoft changed its policy,

Re: Linux Fonts

2002-08-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
In case Dustin doesn't pick up on this today ... On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:32:15AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote: I'll check it out asap. Have you viewed it in linux yet? I have viewed the font with gfontview. It looks OK in a few sizes and not so OK in some others. So I'm guessing the

Re: Linux Fonts

2002-08-15 Thread Michael Cardenas
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:24:02PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: If noone else has offered, I'd love to package this font for inclusion in debian, or include it a free-ttfonts package with a few other gpl tt fonts. I question the name free-ttfonts. The convention seems to be:

Re: Linux Fonts

2002-08-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:40:44AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote: Yes, you're right about removing the free part. I simply wanted to make a single package of truetype fonts for ease of use. I see now that there are a number of ttf packages, but they seem to all be asian charsets. I'm trying to

Re: Linux Fonts

2002-08-15 Thread Dustin Mofos
I have viewed the font with gfontview. It looks OK in a few sizes and not so OK in some others. So I'm guessing the hinting is not perfect yet (either that, or this is a limitation of libttf's handling of the hinting ... hmm, as an aside, I wonder why gfontview uses libttf2 (Freetype

Re: Linux Fonts

2002-08-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:22:41PM -0700, Dustin Mofos wrote: Making a perfectly hinted font is very, very diffecult (the guy who made Times New Roman has said he spent 2+ years on the hinting alone). I chose to embed bitmaps for all the smaller sizes (no small chore). Is it possible that