Dejavu fonts (was: Asian fonts in pdfs)
On Sunday 07 May 2006 18:02, Jeremias Maerki wrote: snip/ Note to FOP committers: Interestingly, the DejaVu font might actually meet our needs license-wise if we want a set of fonts we can redistribute. We'd only have to check with legal since the license is not standard BSD. The drawback: The fonts are quite large (5 MB all together). I think it would be worthwhile to check with ASF legal if the license for these fonts is OK. Even if we don't redistribute them it would be very useful to have a set of fonts in the test resources area so we can have tests which can check unicode handling, line breaking, layout, rendering, font embedding, ... for unicode chars not contained in the base14 fonts. It would also allow us to have some basic regression tests for the ttfreader. Manuel
Re: Dejavu fonts (was: Asian fonts in pdfs)
Will do. On 07.05.2006 12:20:57 Manuel Mall wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 18:02, Jeremias Maerki wrote: snip/ Note to FOP committers: Interestingly, the DejaVu font might actually meet our needs license-wise if we want a set of fonts we can redistribute. We'd only have to check with legal since the license is not standard BSD. The drawback: The fonts are quite large (5 MB all together). I think it would be worthwhile to check with ASF legal if the license for these fonts is OK. Even if we don't redistribute them it would be very useful to have a set of fonts in the test resources area so we can have tests which can check unicode handling, line breaking, layout, rendering, font embedding, ... for unicode chars not contained in the base14 fonts. It would also allow us to have some basic regression tests for the ttfreader. Manuel Jeremias Maerki
