Hi Pierre, Though I am not currently into font designing but I DO plan to design a high-quality free Urdu font (Pakistan's national language). I don't even know the basics of font design software! :) However, I think I am good calligrapher - I can draw comics with Inkscape calligraphic brush/pen using only my mouse. How do you compare FontMatrix with FontForge? Secondly, Do you recommend any good books on Font Designing?
-Asif On 7/3/09, Pierre Marchand <capparis at free.fr> wrote: > I allow myself to copy here the announce I did for our beloved font manager > :) > > > =========================================================== > New public release > > We?re proud, and scared all together, to announce a new public release of > Fontmatrix. > > This release is numbered 0.6.0. It replaces the Jurassic old 0.4.2. The > 0.5.0 > branch has been obsoleted as soon as branched. Trunk is now numbered 0.6.99. > > Compared to 0.4.2, almost everything is new. From the storage backend to the > preview engine, all has been reworked to offer a better user experience and > prepare exciting future developments. Here?s a non exhaustive list of > changes: > On top of it, Inline Help written by Alexandre Prokoudine, without it, most > of > the code would be useless. > SQLite database > Python scripter > Independant samples directory (allowing easy sharing of this resource) > Shortcuts > A text layout engine to display samples (including hyphenation) > Different shaper engines > A playful playground > PANOSE browser (experimental) > Glyphs comparision panel > Boolean operators in filters > Browse file systems for fonts > Themable informations panel (including javascript) > Extract embedded fonts from PDF documents (experimental) > Find font from an image (experimental) > Expose, and possibly export, TrueType tables > Edit tags > billions bugs fixed and UI improvements? > > DOWNLOAD > Main source for this package is the fontmatrix006 branch on Subversion > server: > svn co http://svn.gna.org/svn/undertype/branches/fontmatrix006 > > You can find source packages in archives on the web server: > Tarball - <http://fontmatrix.net/archives/fontmatrix-0.6.0-Source.tar.gz> > Md5 - <http://fontmatrix.net/archives/fontmatrix-0.6.0-Source.tar.gz.md5> > Signature - <http://fontmatrix.net/archives/fontmatrix-0.6.0- > Source.tar.gz.asc> > Key - <http://fontmatrix.net/archives/pierre_marchand-sc.pubkey> > > > We don?t provide yet binary packages. Although expect ones in the coming > days > in popular GNU/Linux distributions repositories, and in coming weeks for > Windows and MacOSX installers. > > Have fun! > > > -- > Pierre Marchand > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
