2009/4/7 Liam R E Quin <l...@holoweb.net>: > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 17:17 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > >> Extracting fonts from PDF and saving in editable form is not rocket >> science. You just grab Fontmatrix/SVN :) > > That would be a really really really bad feature to put into > fontmatrix, I'd say! > > Let's at least try to keep at least a little good will with > the commercial font designer community, if we actually > want to see professional font designers start to get > involved with open source.
>From what I have seen, type designers are, generally, not actually proprietarily-minded, they just want to do type design and get paid and don't really care about how that happens. Therefore applying free software business models to type design, and showing others how to do it, is how to "see professional font designers get involved with open source."
