On 4/14/06, Brian Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This issue that we can really do decent font support with our fonts and not > building them creates problems. So it'd be really nice to have the fonts > available rather than just warn someone they won't be. Sure, installing > fontforge isn't too hard (I did it in all of about 2 minutes last night) but > eventually it's going to cause problems. Maybe because it doesn't work on a > future FreeBSD or MacOS X release, maybe because one of their releases is > broken with regard to our sfd files and we have to work around it, etc, etc. > What Mike's task boils down to is making a simple font generation tool. > Fontforge has about 800 bizillion features and we need two: parsing sfd > files and generating a TTF from them. >
Maybe this is a stupid question, but why can't we just distribute the ttf files directly? n0dalus.