Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Papyrus

2013-10-20 Thread Denis Jacquerye
You can use the "Unsubscribe or edit options" on http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary to unsubscribe. On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Kisan Mehta wrote: > Unsubscribe > > Save Bombay Committee,Prakruti and Life Foundation > 1203,Kanchanjanga "A", Plot 20, Sector 11, Ko

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] [GFD] OFL-FAQ update draft and web fonts paper

2013-05-22 Thread Denis Jacquerye
With some free software you have the freedom to sell it, to cover your cost of distribution, support or for profit, as long as you provide the license and offer the source allowing buyers to have the same freedoms you have. The GPL gives that specific freedom: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.h

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Adobe's Source Sans Pro

2012-08-03 Thread Denis Jacquerye
ice, not human error. See http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/afdko/topic_font_wt_win.html > Also, some of the fonts have fsType of 0x0004 (Documents containing Preview > & Print fonts must be opened "read-only;" no edits can be applied to the > document), but i assume Adobe means all

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Adobe's Source Sans Pro

2012-08-03 Thread Denis Jacquerye
OpenType allows weight values from 1 to 999. CSS is the one rounding those to multiples of 100 from 100 to 900. Fontconfig maps them to some range from 0 to 210 (I'm not sure there). Fontconfig also has multiple aliases for its weight value 40: extralight or ultralight, and its weight value 210: bl

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] LGM 2011

2010-07-07 Thread Denis Jacquerye
Ditto, On 30 Jun 2010, at 19:20, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hello Libre Font people, > > For the last few weeks there's been a discussion over on the CREATE > list about LGM 2011. There are 3 proposals, in alphabetical order: Vietnam, Brasil, Montréal Denis Moyogo Jacquerye

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] hinting workflow

2010-06-26 Thread Denis Jacquerye
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Schrijver wrote: > So I guess when doing a revival you can basically choose between targetting > high-dpi devices which allows you to stay more involved with the original > outlines, or targetting screen primarily and adapt the design accordingly… > > And there’s

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] hinting workflow

2010-06-25 Thread Denis Jacquerye
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Schrijver wrote: >> >> My opinion is based on PostScript hinting; for TrueType I am dependent >> on ff's autoinstructor (which benefits from good PostScript hinting). > > So yes I was wondering about PostScript—are any open source fonts being > distributed as Post

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] hinting workflow

2010-06-15 Thread Denis Jacquerye
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Ben Laenen wrote: > Schrijver wrote: >> I remember a conversation at lgm with Jan, Ben and Denis about how tricky >> it is to deal with hinting in a collaborative workflow (and when deploying >> to multiple platforms). >> >> I’m interested in hearing the experience

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] workflow hints

2010-06-15 Thread Denis Jacquerye
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Ben Laenen wrote: >> Strangely, the binary font formats remain very good for exchange. Both >> the major editors read them! > > You'd still lose a lot of metadata though, like OpenType rule names > for which there's no room in the ttf file. And it's absolutely not

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Logo

2009-04-01 Thread Denis Jacquerye
It's really nice. 2009/4/1 Dave Crossland : > 2009/4/1 Robert Martinez : >> Dave Crossland wrote: >>> >>> TODO: favicon :) >>> >> >> There is attached a 16x16 png, white background. >> Transparent would not work well if the browser uses a dark skin. >> I worked on the "hinting". > > Although Firef

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Free/PD VAG Rounded

2008-11-24 Thread Denis Jacquerye
2008/11/21 Nicolas Mailhot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Le vendredi 21 novembre 2008 à 12:25 +, Dave Crossland a écrit : >> > All the "VAG Rounded" fonts I can find seem to be commercial. >> >> MgOpen Modata is a free software one. > > Are you sure of it? I didn't find any VAG Rounded/MgOpen Modata >

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Should we (via moderation) accept all Free Software licenses?

2008-11-14 Thread Denis Jacquerye
'd like a "show of hands" - Please reply with your name and then > "yes" or "no" - we can then debate the "no"s :-) > > Dave Crossland: Yes Denis Jacquerye: Yes -- Denis Moyogo Jacquerye --- http://home.sus.mcgill.ca/~moyogo African Network for

Re: [Openfontlibrary] Generating Font Samples

2008-05-21 Thread Denis Jacquerye
Hi, I'd be interested to implement a way to match fonts by what language they support. Cheers, Denis Moyogo Jacquerye 2008/5/21 Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/5/21 Ed Trager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> IMHO, anything less than this kind of interactivity no longer makes >> the grade (

Re: [Openfontlibrary] ATypI'08

2008-04-07 Thread Denis Jacquerye
On 30/03/2008, Victor Gaultney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Very cool! You are going to go, right? Any others from OFLB? My > > guess is > > its a bit expensive for most :) Is there travel funding? > > > > I'll be going, and I've put in a proposal to do a talk on "Fonts for > Every Language".

Re: [Openfontlibrary] X11 (?) & Monofonto

2008-01-18 Thread Denis Jacquerye
On Jan 18, 2008 5:52 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb Dave Crossland: > > On 18/01/2008, Nicolas Mailhot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > (C)1999 Ray Larabie - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > That's a small world, I just sent a very polite PM to the contact

Re: [Openfontlibrary] new release of the Ubuntu titling font

2008-01-05 Thread Denis Jacquerye
On Jan 5, 2008 7:00 PM, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05 Jan 2008 08:33:32 -0800, George Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 04:48, Victor Gaultney wrote: > > > Fonts, themselves, are also often the best 'source' for a font, > > > and can be more useful to

Re: [Openfontlibrary] Aurulent Sans

2007-05-05 Thread Denis Jacquerye
On 5/5/07, Stephen Hartke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello! Aurulent Sans is a sans serif font I'm developing for use as the primary interface font on X Windows on GNU/Linux. I am developing it using MetaType1 and FontForge. A preliminary release is available at http://www.geocities.com/hartke01

Re: [Openfontlibrary] Linux and fonts (was on inkscape dev list)

2007-04-23 Thread Denis Jacquerye
On 4/23/07, Donn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/42926 > Linux distribution should only install at most 5 or 6 font per script > (screen and print), and have all the decorative fonts as optional. > Okay, I can see the madness sets-in early (

Re: [Openfontlibrary] Linux and fonts (was on inkscape dev list)

2007-04-22 Thread Denis Jacquerye
On 4/23/07, Donn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Didn't get much authority on the Inkscape dev list (well not yet) - which surprised me a little. But John Philips advised me to pipe this over here; so, with some edits: I use Kubuntu (Dapper), but I reckon this will apply to a lot of distros: H

Re: [Openfontlibrary] font to be sold on ebay

2007-04-17 Thread Denis Jacquerye
On 4/17/07, Jon Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 18:14 -0100, Gustavo Ferreira wrote: > (from the atypi list) > http://www.designweek.co.uk/Articles/134544/Fonts+to+be+sold+on+Ebay.html > > cheers, > - gustavo. This is quite interesting! We should either buy it and dedic

Re: [Openfontlibrary] looking for corefonts replacements, how to replace?, and site search

2007-04-12 Thread Denis Jacquerye
On 4/12/07, Ed Trager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 p

Re: [Openfontlibrary] looking for corefonts replacements, how to replace?, and site search

2007-04-12 Thread Denis Jacquerye
On 4/12/07, Liam R E Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 10:20 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > 2) I am looking for replacements for Microsoft Corefonts which are > > > TrueType fonts from Microsoft with WGL4 (Windows Glyph List 4) charset: [...] > This is why I am looking f