Cool, but I totally support efforts like Iwan's to push through our blockages...In fact, I hope we can support these efforts more on our site(s) too.
Nicholas, do we have a package of our fonts? I have software which can do the packaging and we can put into a cronjob. Anyone interested in this? Jon On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Nicolas Spalinger < nicolas_spalin...@sil.org> wrote: > [...] > > > I also wonder, what are the chances of adding a tool into OFL to create > > previews of all font files and then adding the previews to the browse > > and font pages? > > > > Best regards > > > > Iwan > > Thanks for your efforts in providing previews. > > The tools which Ed Trager has worked on for the OFLB > (pango-cairo-font-playground) provide support for generating previews > beyond what "convert" from imagemagick currently allows us to do. > Should allow us to get rid of the questions marks and empty boxes... :-) > > So integrated previewing is underway and will be available on the live > site hopefully soon. > > BTW, OFL is the license and OFLB is the library :-) > > > People who are yet not aware of it may also be interested by the review > we run weekly for all the fonts in Debian: various metadata fields and > to-be-improved previewing too: http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/review/ > > Cheers, > > > -- > Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer > Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary > http://planet.open-fonts.org > > -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ http://fabricatorz.com/ internet: @rejon + skype: kidproto +1.415.830.3884 (sf/global) +86.134.3957.2035 (china) Sent from San Francisco, CA, United States