Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Ubuntu Font Testing webapp

2010-07-13 Thread Antonio Roberts
> Whoever insists that Ubuntu is failing some sort of ethos regarding > fonts should grow up. Agreed. I think it's assumed that open source = open development. It's more common, and probably makes more sense to do both, but there's no reason why they can't/shouldn't just release it when it's finish

[OpenFontLibrary] Handy **self-contained** PHP Font Metadata Reader

2010-07-13 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi, Brussels-based PHP genius Olivier Berten has made a sfnt.class.php that powers www.selapa.net/khmerfonts/ and kindly donated the code to Open Font Library - its in the public repo here: https://svn.openfontlibrary.org/public/openfontlibrary/selapa/ With my limited PHP skillz, I have reworked

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Ubuntu Font Testing webapp

2010-07-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:24:48PM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote: > On 12 July 2010 15:52, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 12 July 2010 15:49, vernon adams wrote: > >> Is there a place to grab the fonts without signing up for Ubuntu > >> membership ;) > > > > http://www.google.ca/search?q=ubuntubeta+d

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Ubuntu Font Testing webapp

2010-07-13 Thread Dave Crossland
On 12 July 2010 15:52, Dave Crossland wrote: > On 12 July 2010 15:49, vernon adams wrote: >> Is there a place to grab the fonts without signing up for Ubuntu >> membership ;) > > http://www.google.ca/search?q=ubuntubeta+download ahem :) $ php OFLB/public/openfontlibrary/selapa/fontinfo_cmd.php U

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Ubuntu Font Testing webapp

2010-07-13 Thread Barry Schwartz
vernon adams skribis: > There's a debate about on whether Ubuntu are failing the open source > ethos by not releasing the font until it's 'finished'. That's just a problem in reading or speech comprehension. > Interestingly there's an argument that fonts can't practically be > released whilst in

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Ubuntu Font Testing webapp

2010-07-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 03:45:52PM -0500, Nathan Willis wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > > If the font name users see in their font menu is "FontName > Beta-20100713" how can they set and forget? > > > I don't

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Ubuntu Font Testing webapp

2010-07-13 Thread Nathan Willis
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > If the font name users see in their font menu is "FontName > Beta-20100713" how can they set and forget? > I don't think they can; I was only saying that those three things (Apt repo, font name, .sf

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Ubuntu Font Testing webapp

2010-07-13 Thread Dave Crossland
On 13 July 2010 16:17, Nathan Willis wrote: > keep 99% of the users-who-don't-know-what-their-in-for from accidentally > setting-and-forgetting the prerelease version. If the font name users see in their font menu is "FontName Beta-20100713" how can they set and forget?

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Ubuntu Font Testing webapp

2010-07-13 Thread Nathan Willis
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 03:47:30PM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 13 July 2010 15:34, Alexandre Prokoudine > > wrote: > > > On 7/13/10, vernon adams wrote: > > >> Theres a debate about on whether Ubuntu are failing the open source > > >

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Ubuntu Font Testing webapp

2010-07-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 03:47:30PM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote: > On 13 July 2010 15:34, Alexandre Prokoudine > wrote: > > On 7/13/10, vernon adams wrote: > >> Theres a debate about on whether Ubuntu are failing the open source > >> ethos by not releasing the font untill it's 'finished'. > >> > >>

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Ubuntu Font Testing webapp

2010-07-13 Thread Dave Crossland
On 13 July 2010 15:34, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On 7/13/10, vernon adams wrote: >> Theres a debate about on whether Ubuntu are failing the open source >> ethos by not releasing the font untill it's 'finished'. >> >> Interestingly there's an argument that fonts can't practically be >> released

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Ubuntu Font Testing webapp

2010-07-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:34:09PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On 7/13/10, vernon adams wrote: > > Theres a debate about on whether Ubuntu are failing the open source > > ethos by not releasing the font untill it's 'finished'. > > Whoever insists that Ubuntu is failing some sort of ethos

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Ubuntu Font Testing webapp

2010-07-13 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 7/13/10, vernon adams wrote: > Theres a debate about on whether Ubuntu are failing the open source > ethos by not releasing the font untill it's 'finished'. Whoever insists that Ubuntu is failing some sort of ethos regarding fonts should grow up. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Ubuntu Font Testing webapp

2010-07-13 Thread vernon adams
Theres a debate about on whether Ubuntu are failing the open source ethos by not releasing the font untill it's 'finished'. Interestingly there's an argument that fonts can't practically be released whilst in development (unlike other software) because it would be difficult for the author & users