I want to create a unicode truetype font based on the Unicode code charts to
distribute them under GPL (and package them for Debian). I am not sure whether
I can do this or not since the PDF files include the following sentence under
"Terms of use":
"You may freely use these code charts for pe
What do you mean by "using them as a starting point to build a new font?" If
you mean that you will look at the glyphs to have shape ideas, I think that
is find. If you mean extract the shapes from the PDF to put them in your
font with little modifications, I highly doubt it. The Unicode charts ar
> What do you mean by "using them as a starting point to build a new font?" If
> you mean that you will look at the glyphs to have shape ideas, I think that
> is find. If you mean extract the shapes from the PDF to put them in your
> font with little modifications, I highly doubt it. The Unicode ch
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:18:18PM -0300, Eduardo Tr?pani wrote:
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> Well, if that approach does not work I guess I am going to try to merge
> existing free fonts. I am having a hard time finding true type free fonts
> with a good Unicode coverage and acceptable quality.
>
How much of Unicode is
> I think there should be a (at least low quality) free unicode font made
> available by the Unicode Consortium.
What about unifont? http://czyborra.com/unifont/
> Well, if that approach does not work I guess I am going to try to merge
> existing free fonts. I am having a hard time finding true
> I do not know anything about how X fonts work, or what you are trying to do,
> but maybe your energy would be better spent adding a mechanism to
> transparently fetch glyphs from various fonts when the currently selected
> font does not have glyphs for some codepoints.
Well, I am trying to have
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