Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Contribute logos for permissive font licenses on OFLBv2

2009-08-03 Thread George Williams
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 12:00, Ed Trager wrote: = The dinosaur could also perhaps be put in color -- not sure what color would be appropriate? When I was in high school I had a job at the local museum painting their (life-sized) dinosaur models. The Brontosaurus was Chinese Green. But, being

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] FontForge install

2009-01-02 Thread George Williams
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 02:45, Miguel Eduardo Venegas Monroy wrote: 1. Insert the Mac OS X installation DVD and installed X11. Please edit this line with exact details on how to do this. Recent versions of FontForge expose a bug in old OS/X 10.5 X11 installs. After doing this step it is a good

Re: [Openfontlibrary] ccHost compression

2008-11-05 Thread George Williams
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 13:46, Ed Trager wrote: at the *nix file command source code, I bet you could fairly easily find a reference to the magic file header bytes that are used to detect TTF/OTF files and then add this to the getId3() stuff, assuming that getId3() is well-written. OpenType

Re: [Openfontlibrary] Font formats accepted by OFLB

2008-10-24 Thread George Williams
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 13:48, Ed Trager wrote: Such a bitmap-only font should also be packaged in a TTF container, Um, there is no standard sfnt format for a bitmap only font. Apple supports one format X11 has its own format (and supports Apple's) MS has NO bitmap only format. (and

Re: [Openfontlibrary] [Cctools-cchost] ccHost 5: pseudo-verify files with no extension

2008-10-18 Thread George Williams
On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 13:51, Dave Crossland wrote: MS-DOS used 3 letter file extensions to associate files with file types, MacOS used resource forks, Not exactly. The file type lives in the file header, not the resource fork. But it is a concept peculiar to the mac which apple appears to be

Re: [Openfontlibrary] GPL with Font Exception?

2008-07-24 Thread George Williams
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 07:03, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: Dave Crossland wrote: 2008/7/24 Christopher Fynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there any reason why an option for GPL + Font Exception or even for GPL is not included? Lack of developer time. I'd say it's also a question of agreeing on

Re: [Openfontlibrary] On font release practices…

2008-07-14 Thread George Williams
On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 10:17, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: 2. a detached license file is unambiguous. False. See below. 3. a detached license file is so in the face you can safely assume upstream did not ship it inadvertantly Only for the packager. Not for the user. See below. 6. we don't trust font

Re: [Openfontlibrary] On font release practices…

2008-07-14 Thread George Williams
On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 10:17, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Please publish fonts accompagned by detached license files. Ok, I have changed fontforge's upload so that it will upload a detached License.txt file (and a FontLog.txt file if the user has that). Unfortunately OFLib does not accept txt files.

Re: [Openfontlibrary] On font release practices…

2008-07-13 Thread George Williams
On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 02:37, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Hi, Some of you may have wondered why I insist all the time on detached licenses and other boring bureaucratic stuff. Here is what happens when the font author dumps a raw font file with little context: (10:43:38) LyosNorezel: nim-nim:

Re: [Openfontlibrary] Licensing options

2008-07-04 Thread George Williams
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 03:33, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: The note maybe but zipping font files with a detached .TXT file is good practice and should be promoted. Not if you want the font files to be available for @font-face usage. I doubt there are any browsers which will download a zip file, unzip

Re: [Openfontlibrary] X11 (?) Monofonto

2008-01-21 Thread George Williams
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 08:59, Denis Jacquerye wrote: aham? And what about 'my' problem: how monofonto appears? Am I right on this list? No, this is certainly not the right list to fix that font. Contact the author, he can help. We can only try to talk about it. If you are wondering why it

Re: [Openfontlibrary] new release of the Ubuntu titling font

2008-01-03 Thread George Williams
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 04:12, Ben Laenen wrote: DejaVu), but SFDs have too much garbage in them that shouldn't be there (the things we need to strip out in DejaVu before committing to svn), like how you left your windows in FontForge. I also personally don't like how ttf hinting is kept in

[Openfontlibrary] library philosophy (was: new release of the Ubuntu titling font)

2008-01-03 Thread George Williams
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 09:22, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: The OFL model does not place a strict requirements on releasing sources but strongly encourages to release everything that can be useful to designers: data files, glyph databases, smart code, build scripts, documentation and rendering

Re: [Openfontlibrary] Libre Graphics Meeting 2, 4-5-6 May 2007, in Montreal

2007-02-09 Thread George Williams
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 06:40, Dave Crossland wrote: Hi, Will anyone here be attending the Libre Graphics Meeting 2? It looks as though I shall be there after all. Would anyone be interested in working on a presentation of the OFLB there with me? I see there's a 10k footrace somewhere in