On 14.11.2011 16:45, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
--- On Mon, 11/14/11, Herbert Duerr<[email protected]> wrote:
...
I think he fixed the metric files to better work with
the Arial Narrow
font.
I extended the Liberation Sans font family with Narrow font
faces and contributed these changes upstream.
But still, he will be sad, that they have to go.
Not only me, but everyone who is using documents with it or
its metrically compatible counterpart. These documents or
their text boxes tend to overflow and this often looks
nasty.
I might've got it wrong, but I understand "liberation"
fonts are actually replacements for fonts that are already
installed on Windows. MS-Windows users don't need them
The narrow font faces are not installed with the plain system, they get
usually installed with certain productivity suites.
and linux/BSD users have them preinstalled.
Yes, we can add them as a dependency or a recommendation.
Maybe I should look into basing some new Narrow font faces
on a font family that has a license acceptable for bundling
them as binaries in an Apache release (e.g. OFL?)
Unfortunately really good fonts are all commercial.
For finding a good looking sans serif font that is usable as a base for
a metrically compatible set of narrow faces there are a couple of good
candidates. E.g. the DejaVu fonts were considered once and IIRC the
metrically compatible narrow font faces based on them looked quite nice.
Herbert
