Hi, Now that Freefont is in synch with Debian ttf-freefont, what's next?
Well, I applied one outstanding patch that had never been applied. As near as I can tell, this is the last of the outstanding patches. This is important, because the SFD (Spline Font Database) format used by fontforge changed (quite some time ago) from version 1 to 2. Merely saving any of the existing SFD files with any modern version of font forge results in sweeping changes to the file; few patches would be applicable afterward. But the new fontforge has lots of great new features, and I found it much more stable than some earlier versions. Except... Tonight I found that fontforge crashes trying to generate a TrueType font from FreeSerifItalic. Only that one file...the other font files work fine. So, what is next is; 1) to find out what is crashing font forge on this one file and fix it. 2) to save and commit all the font files in the new SFD 2 format. Cheers!
