[Fonts] filtered anti-tempest fonts

2003-02-28 Thread G S Osler
Are there any filtered anti-tempest fonts available for XFree86? If not then how would I go about converting M G Kuhn's 16x12 gif images http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/st-fonts.zip Do there exist any utils that would make the conversion? (Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) http://partners.

[Fonts] filtered Tempest fonts

2003-02-28 Thread G S Osler
Do we have any filtered Tempest fonts available for X. If not how would I go about converting Markus Kuhn's (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/st-fonts.zip). Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) Specification (http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/pdfs/tn/5005.BDF_Spec.pdf) is the X font spe

Re: [Fonts] Trademarks in the names of the core fonts

2003-02-28 Thread Jim.Gettys
> Note that the fonts in question merely place Adobe bitmap accent glyphs > on top of Adobe bitmap base character glyphs. That's how the many accent > glyphs in the PostScript encoding were meant to be used. They don't > really add new character designs. The fact that the precomposing happens > in

Re: [Fonts] Trademarks in the names of the core fonts

2003-02-28 Thread Markus Kuhn
Note that the fonts in question merely place Adobe bitmap accent glyphs on top of Adobe bitmap base character glyphs. That's how the many accent glyphs in the PostScript encoding were meant to be used. They don't really add new character designs. The fact that the precomposing happens in the BDF fi

Re: [Fonts] Trademarks in the names of the core fonts

2003-02-28 Thread Jim.Gettys
> This is not a copyright problem but a trademark problem. > If company X owns trademark Y, they can sue you for using the > name Y, no matter whether you use it for a freeware program, > a pixel font, or a new sports utility vehicle. Even if they > don't care about the commercial value of some pix

Re: [Fonts] Trademarks in the names of the core fonts

2003-02-28 Thread Uwe Waldmann
Markus Kuhn wrote: > This was discussed before. None of the commercial font suppliers > considers pixel fonts to be of any commercial interest whatsoever > today, This is not a copyright problem but a trademark problem. If company X owns trademark Y, they can sue you for using the name Y, no matt

[Fonts] May these patches go into next release?

2003-02-28 Thread Yun-Ta Tsai
Greeting, I found some patches that will fix several truetype fonts problems with asian characters both on printing to printer and showing on screen, also support asian font name. Unfortunatelly, I can't patch by myself because qt keep releasing , so I require for help. Three packages ar