On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
I heard a rumour that the Reading MATD portfolio site at
www.typefacedesign.org has PDFs from which fonts were extracted and
posted on some Chinese or Russian forum (communists, eh? ;-) The
I can hear you! :)
rumour was that the rips
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 17:17 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Extracting fonts from PDF and saving in editable form is not rocket
science. You just grab Fontmatrix/SVN :)
That would be a really really really bad feature to put into
fontmatrix, I'd say!
Let's at least try to keep at least a
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:17:57PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
rumour was that the rips were of much lower quality than the student's
real, unpublished, OTFs - incomplete metrics, glyph encodings wrong,
that kind of thing.
Extracting fonts from PDF and saving in editable form is
Le Mar 7 avril 2009 16:45, Liam R E Quin a écrit :
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 17:17 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Extracting fonts from PDF and saving in editable form is not rocket
science. You just grab Fontmatrix/SVN :)
That would be a really really really bad feature to put into
2009/4/7 Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net:
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 17:17 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Extracting fonts from PDF and saving in editable form is not rocket
science. You just grab Fontmatrix/SVN :)
That would be a really really really bad feature to put into
fontmatrix, I'd
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 17:37 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:45:22AM -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote:
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 17:17 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Extracting fonts from PDF and saving in editable form is not rocket
science. You just grab Fontmatrix/SVN
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
No, not at all -- it assumes that the type designers and vendors
don't like people doing it, which _is_ true, by and large. I'm
saying, let's not do things which we know will cause anger, bad
publicity and potentially leave a lasting bad
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 04:30:12PM -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote:
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 17:37 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:45:22AM -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote:
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 17:17 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Extracting fonts from PDF and saving in
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 00:23 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
[...]
I really appreciate the art behind type design, but I highly doubt that
type designers in them selves are really interested in locking up their
work of art.
You might be surprised.
Having said that, I think I've said enough,
it's
