Hi, Denis,
A good subsitute would have original designs for glyphs but the same metrics as the non-free font it aims to replace.
The Bitstream Vera set of fonts actually have different metrics than the corresponding MS Core fonts, right? There was a post on the this list about somebody I think in Australia who has taken the Bitstream set and changed the font metrics to match MS Core font metrics. How "bad" is that, I wonder? How different are they? Also, has the Deja Vu project changed the overall font metrics at all, I wonder, to accomodate all of those extended Latin and other added characters? Many people are interested in the issue of "document fidelity" -- where, for example, pagination of a document does not change across OSes. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that there are some well-known commercial fonts that also have the same font metrics -but different glyph designs- as some other better known commercial fonts. Presumably the reasoning is the same: to allow drop-in substitution of the alternate font while still retaining "document fidelity". I wonder who has solid information on this issue? Best - Ed Trager _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
