On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Fabian Greffrath <[email protected]> wrote: > owner 496070 ! > block 495598 by 496070 > thanks > > Am 07.02.2011 19:03, schrieb Bastien ROUCARIES: >> >> Nevertheless could you explain why you need opentype fonts? > > My main motivation back then was that cups needs a replacement for the > Courier font in order to print plain text (#516335) and this font needs to > be in truetype (not opentype) format. The cups maintainers decided for > ttf-freefont exclusively (#495598), although I think this was a bad choice > and prefer ttf-liberation or the original gsfonts instead. The latter, > however, are only available in type1 format and this I why I asked to make > them available in truetype format as well.
It seems that freebsd have converted their fonts to ttf see http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/x11-fonts/urwfonts-ttf.html And it seems that these fonts have also some fontforge source see also another bug report. BTW do you care to co maintian this package ? Bastien > > - Fabian > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
