Hi, (I'll shorten further for "State of Libre Graphics 2017"...)
For a while, I have been thinking about updating the FontVal slides I gave my talk last year, so it is just as well. I have dumped all that's changed in the last 12 months in about 20 slides (about half of them just screenshots...) - in no particular order: http://htl10.users.sf.net/FontVal-LG2017.pdf The 2nd half of which was some screenshots about hinting and rendering difference of IE vs firefox, both on windows 7. It is a shorter/neater version of http://htl10.users.sf.net/craphinting.pdf I shared with some people a few weeks ago, about some crap hinting I saw on windows machine with a partcular web site. Last year in LG 2016 April, I had no idea how to continue and finish the missing pieces - then in July, I released 2.0 - re-implemented the missing part of GUI before that, and heavily patched freetype for the hinting check. Before and after, python scripting happened - had a built-in IronPython interpreter in May 2016, and the customized Freetype hinting diagnostics backend is accessible from freetype-py with a python (CPython) based alternative command-line frontend last month. As far as the libre community goes, font reports for fedora 24 shipped fonts were up at http://htl10.users.sf.net/tmp/FontVal-test-results-2016July/ . I'll re-test around August on fedora 26 to see how libre fonts have improved, or not. I hope to see some changes. last year's was at: http://htl10.users.sf.net/FontVal-LG2016.pdf The 2nd half of FontVal-LG2017.pdf and the whole of craphinting.pdf are all screenshots from windows. I see Microsoft tries a bit more on the OS side, and also libre fonts tend not to do much about hinting; so one only sees dramatically bad hinting on windows with IE; this seems to be a commercial font vendor and non-libre OS's concern. OTOH, most people in the world are still using windows... Anyway, I am posting this early, because tomorrow and the next couple of days is a big font event in Berlin (I am not going, but hope to generate some discussion). I'll trim the slides and this e-mail down further for "State of Libre Graphics 2017". Hin-Tak ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 17:02:49 +0200 From: Simon Budig <[email protected]> To: Create ML <[email protected]> Subject: [CREATE] State of Libre Graphics 2017 Hi everybody. I'll be hosting the "State of Libre Graphics" presentation this year. This is the update from the many software, curation publication and umbrella projects of our Libre Graphics community. For each project we want a title slide and one, none, or two content slides. The title slides should/could contain name of project, logo and perhaps a brief tag-line for/description of the project. The content slides should be about changes in the last year; as well as perhaps plans for the near future, it is good if the slides are a mostly visual; with speaker notes with context for what to to say with the slides. Naming of files: projectname-0.png (or .jpg) projectname-1.png projectname-2.png projectname.txt The graphics files should be 1920x1080 – if they are not; they will be resized to fit. Feel free to bundle the files all in a tarball or zipfile, and send them as an attachment to [email protected] in an email with ‘State of Libre Graphics’ as part of the subject. For projects focused on video/animation; an up to 100second video/animation with audio would be welcome instead of slides 1 and 2. If this option is taken, upload the video somewhere and provide an URL for fetching it. As I am not 100% sure if I can present them in a somewhat seamless manner I'd appreciate if you could prepare some slides as well as a fallback solution. Content should be submitted by Wednesday the 14th of April, a week before LGM. Thanks all, looking forward to LGM. Bye, Simon _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
