Re: [OpenFontLibrary] use of (c) typefaces

2009-05-12 Thread Pierre Marchand
Vous avez écrit : Stani Michiels of SPE and Phatch fame came up with a POC python script to create a obfuscated visual fingerprint of a font with its own shapes to allow comparison and matching. Hi, I would be interested to have the script if possible and compare it to the system used in

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] use of (c) typefaces

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
Does anyone know Stani's email?

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] use of (c) typefaces

2009-05-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 09:13 +0600, Christopher Fynn wrote: [...] Wouldn't you have to have access to the (c) / proprietary fonts in order to do this? Probably, but, it's not inconceivable to me either. Liam - C -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/

[OpenFontLibrary] use of (c) typefaces

2009-05-08 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
Hi, Maybe we should have some kind of WhatTheFont client in admin panel to check uploaded fonts for being actually (c) typefaces? Alexandre

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] use of (c) typefaces

2009-05-08 Thread Ed Trager
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Maybe we should have some kind of WhatTheFont client in admin panel to check uploaded fonts for being actually (c) typefaces? How does one do that? Tell us the technical details. The program I

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] use of (c) typefaces

2009-05-08 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Ed Trager wrote: But I assume that the problem you are really trying to address is one of people copying glyph outlines into a new font that they claim to be their own? Yes  For that kind of situation, one would, I assume, have to try to match glyph outlines

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] use of (c) typefaces

2009-05-08 Thread Ben Weiner
Hi, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: Hi, Maybe we should have some kind of WhatTheFont client in admin panel to check uploaded fonts for being actually (c) typefaces As Ed Trager says in his reply, Fontaine reads license fields from uploaded fonts. Fontaine is an important part of the OFLB not

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] use of (c) typefaces

2009-05-08 Thread Ed Trager
Hi, Alexandre, On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Ed Trager wrote: But I assume that the problem you are really trying to address is one of people copying glyph outlines into a new font that they claim to

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] use of (c) typefaces

2009-05-08 Thread Ed Trager
Hi, all, On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Ben Weiner b...@readingtype.org.uk wrote: Hi, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: Hi, Maybe we should have some kind of WhatTheFont client in admin panel to check uploaded fonts for being actually (c) typefaces As Ed Trager says in his reply, Fontaine

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] use of (c) typefaces

2009-05-08 Thread Olivier BERTEN
Maybe this is what you're talking about... http://www.fontmatrix.net/node/44 Olivier Liam R E Quin a écrit : On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 10:42 -0400, Ed Trager wrote: Hi, Alexandre, [...] But it works Does it? These tools do work for the most common case of a copied

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] use of (c) typefaces

2009-05-08 Thread Christopher Fynn
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Ed Trager wrote: But I assume that the problem you are really trying to address is one of people copying glyph outlines into a new font that they claim to be their own? Yes For that kind of situation, one would, I assume, have