Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Setting up self hosting
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:09 PM, vernon adams wrote: HAHAHA! Who iz Bruno Maag? He runs a well known type design agency. He’s a loud critic of Free fonts. Just to feed my curiosity... How does one design free fonts and then criticize free fonts? Any URLs to share? Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Lemonad's libre Days Font used on new Dutch Euro Coin
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Raphaël Bastide wrote: Libre? Really? It seems just to be a freeware. Days is SIL. It's also extensively used on websites, shop signs, movies etc. Jovanny once told a story how he was walking with a friend, and while he was explaining why he makes his fonts free, they passed 2 or 3 shops that used Days in the shop sign. Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Howdy!
How much do you expect to pay for free software? :) Alexandre On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 7:13 AM, noo...@aol.com wrote: Certainly! When I have some money. In a message dated 10/5/2013 6:40:22 P.M. Central Daylight Time, d...@lab6.com writes: Cool! I hope you'd consider paying for FontForge instead :)
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Adobe's Source Sans Pro
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:07:50AM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote: Haha damn you that would have been my fault if it was messed up! XD BTW, it's the first time I noticed this: is Pango really uncapable of seeing Extra Light weights? More than that, it renames weights. E.g. in both Inkscape and GIMP, I get Heavy instead of Black. That would be FontConfig not Pango. Hmmm, grepping /etc/fonts doesn't return anything related Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Adobe's Source Sans Pro
Okay, I pinged Paul via Twitter about that. Thanks for the hint! Alexandre On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:38 PM, vern adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote: That's right (i think) the usWeightClass in OS/2 tables must be multiples of 100. Source Sans Extra Light has a value of 250. The value should be 200, as the Light version is already 300. -v On 3 Aug 2012, at 09:32, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: So I'd say it is a font bug (might be a FontConfig limitation as well, I have some vague recollection about some discussion somewhere on whether OS/2 weight must be multiples of 100 or not). -- Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] [GFD] Adobe's Source Sans Pro
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: On 2 August 2012 11:47, vern adams wrote: Would be very handy if the source fonts were in ufo too. I don't think Adobe uses a UFO based workflow ;p Are you by any chance referring to a particular lizard that was last seen running freely in 90s? :) Speaking of OFL typefaces, Jovanny just announced availability of Oranienbaum, a new ultracontrast antiqua. http://jovanny.ru/eng-free-fonts.html Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Adobe's Source Sans Pro
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/08/source-sans-pro.html Okay, this is becoming extremely puzzling. According to metadata: - typefaces were made by Ascender Corporation - the license is Apache v2.0 - Open Sans is a trademark of Google and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. - Digitized data copyright © 2010-2011, Google (not 2012-2012) The blog posting doesn't mention any of that. What gives? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Convert brand guidelines to HTML?
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Chris Lilley wrote: In case you want to open the SVG version, be sure to have the following fonts installed: Maven Pro, Muli, PT Sans, PT Serif. Are these all open license fonts which could be used as webfonts? Not sure about Muli, but Maven Pro font is free, and both PTs are free/open source. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] .Net article on libre fonts
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Laval Chabon wrote: Positively, flowers encourage the ones that loves hot-dog fast-food meals. And if you send yourself flowers saying: look at me, I'm receiving flowers made by I don't know who. But the meaning of flowers is that I'm beautiful. Hmm, well. you should be selling flowers perhaps importated from Equator. Is that some kind of obscure spam? :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Improving Metadata: Could OFLB modify fonts on the server?
On 5/14/11, Victor Gaultney wrote: many designers, and makes the free font movement look more and more like Johnny Depp. And that means what exactly? :) Also, if we make free font movement look more like Angelina Jolie, whatever it would mean, would it help? :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Who's Coming? Libre Graphics Meeting 2011 in Montreal
On 4/8/11, jon wrote: I just wanted to get a head count on who will be coming to LGM this year? -1 Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Asian OFLib Domains
On 10/29/10, Christopher Adams wrote: This looks legitimate. If it is legitimate, then why Victor got the mail and not me, owner of openfontlibrary.org? :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Drupal
On 7/1/10, Dave Crossland wrote: I evaluated it for my projects and the decision was a strict no. What do you suggest, Alexandre? :-) Me? I haven't evaluated Aiki yet, what could I possibly suggest apart from Give it a good test and see who's the winner? :) The project needs its own programmer anyway. It was ever so. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
[OpenFontLibrary] workflow hints
Hi, I'm finally looking inside http://oflb.open-fonts.org/foo-open-font-sources-2.0.tar.gz that Nicolas mentioned during his talk at LGM. Is there some kind of description of the recommended workflow? Like doing everything in separate UFO files and then combining them in FF, or working on a FontForge project and then exporting all glyphs to separate files using some script. Stuff like that. Anyone? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] workflow hints
On 6/15/10, Schrijver wrote: Generally, you won’t want to work on the UFO files directly, but you interface through an editor which can read and write UFO, like fontforge or the proprietary alternative. I sort of suspected that :-P I guess internally fontforge then creates a fontforge project, but that doesn’t really matter. The UFO is what you put into versioning, and what other tools speak to. To get stuff in and out of the UFO fontforge scripting should work really well; Dave posted a 4 line script to generate ttf’s; and you could for example write a script that imports svg’s. That would mean fighting away some important tasks to get a grasp on programming. Not in this life. But I got the idea :) We made some documentation on this on the wiki, but that’s offline… **poke Dave** (sorry man, I know you work hard!) Eric ps to programmatically manipulate ufo there is also the robofab python library Yeah, I was intending to have a look at that one day, when I have nothing to do, that is, when I'm dead and buried six feet underground :) In other words, would it be considered polite to just distribute FontForge source and expect someone contribute a script that exports it to UFO or whatever, in case that someone really-really needs it? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] OpenFontLibrary Digest, Vol 54, Issue 1
On 6/5/10, fontfree...@aol.com wrote: Also. Someone please fire Dave. *sigh* Make me unsee this. Look, you are not going any far with this sort of public demands. I really don't want to bring up the topic, but yet another rant of that kind, and we'll just have to make decision if we really want see you in this list. Because I've personally had enough of that. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] OpenFontLibrary Digest, Vol 54, Issue 1
On 6/5/10, Ben Laenen wrote: once one of your 140 Russians finishes your site? *cough* One is usually more than enough *cough* Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
[OpenFontLibrary] greek font society?
Hi, This is purely off-topic, but does anybody have any idea what happened to Greek FOnt Society? http://www.greekfontsociety.org/ looks taken over Alexandre
[OpenFontLibrary] Text Layout Summit 2010 at LGM?
Hi, I'm terribly sorry for crossposting, but that's, as usual, just in case :) How about annual Text Layout Summit at LGM in late May? Behdad, will you be able to attend? SIL people, how about you? Maybe even Victor could come? Alexandre
[OpenFontLibrary] PT sans dual-licensed now
Hi, http://www.libregraphicsworld.org/news.php?readmore=285 PT Sans by Paratype has a separate version under OFL now. All thanks presumably go to Dave Crossland? ;-) Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] PT sans dual-licensed now
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: Hi Alexandre! On 5 April 2010 14:36, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.libregraphicsworld.org/news.php?readmore=285 PT Sans by Paratype has a separate version under OFL now. The OFL.txt isn't in the download ZIP. Yes, it's in the font itself. Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] PT sans dual-licensed now
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: This has the SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.0 - 22 November 2005 - and the current version is 1.1 - http://scripts.sil.org/OFL#5667e9e4 I will email Paratype about this. Um, already acknowledged and to be fixed in few days. Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Phone conversation with Ed Trager
On 3/8/10, Dave Crossland wrote: Ed thinks about replacing ccHost with a custom webapp. Ed suggests just talking about OFLB v2 again for the 4th time at LGM? Ed is offering to cut the code for this, so, don't be mean to him. :-) What's the point of being mean when I can be nasty? :) Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Commissioned-then-Open Font Model - was: New Ubuntu Fon
On 3/6/10, fontfree...@aol.com wrote: for MOST authors of software libraries, that is simply false. Programmers understand that releasing their software libraries as proprietary will make more money in the long run. Oh come on, what sort of long run are you talking about? Everybody knows we are all going to die in 2012 one way or another (the maya buggers could have been more specific about it when they stopped calculating calendar back in the olden days, damn them) Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Greetings - 1st post
On 1/5/10, Jon Phillips wrote: pick up shovel. Which mean exactly what? :) Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] PT Sans
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Christoph Schäfer wrote: Hi Dave, in other circumstances I'd enjoy a detailed discussion, but a dictum stating a font is not legally redistributable simply because the creator uses a modified license defies not only common sense, but also the spirit of open licensing. I think Dave may be interpreting the provision that says a font licensed OFL cannot be redistributed under a modified license to mean that no one can modify the OFL license. If that were the case I wouldn't have raised any objection! :) In my experience, Vimes, you argue with anything (c) Havelock Vetinari :) Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] OneClickOrgs beta - our environment is now ready
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: To do this I need 5 people willing to be 'core members' who will sit on the board of the group, and who will be at the LGM2010 in May next year to have a face to face meeting. I'm guessing this would be: Ben Weiner Ed Trager Nicolas Spalinger Jon Phillips Alexandre Prokoudine Heh, I'd be then what we here in matushka Rossiya call svadebny general (a kind of traditional military high rank guy at a marriage to make the marriage ceremony look more solid). Generally I don't mind as long as you don't make me wear uniform or a stupid serious face :) Or drink alcohol :) But... eh, what is the current state of the OFLB v2? Alexandre
[OpenFontLibrary] oflb is back
Hi, We are back again :) Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Downtime / What to do about it??
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 3:13 AM, fontfree...@aol.com wrote: I happen to be feeling a bit frustrated with the openfontlibrary.org downtime. FYI there is a thing called weekend. This is usually two last days of a week, namely Saturday and Sunday. This is when people take rest from previous five days of madness called solving other people's issues. So when you mail domain service around 8pm on Friday to tell them they didn't really passed control on the domain name to a new company chances are that the mail will be read on Monday morning only. Probably morning. This is how the world works. Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Heuristica 0.2
2009/8/21 Andrey V. Panov wrote: No. Xz format is becoming the leading format for compression for Linux binary packages. Slackware already switched to it, Red Hat is going to do this in its rpm format. You may also install 7zip 9.x to unpack this. You mean, I need to fetch 7zip for Linux, build it and unpack a file from console using some wretched CLI arguments? Thanks, no :) File Roller worked for me all this time :) Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Heuristica 0.2
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Andrey V. Panovpa...@canopus.iacp.dvo.ru wrote: The second beta version of Heuristica fonts is released. This version adds kerning for Cyrillic, adds more Cyrillic and other characters (e.g. Euro). Link to download: ftp://ftp.dvo.ru/pub/Font/heuristica/ .tar.xz? What on Earth is that? Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Heuristica 0.2
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: No you just have to be a git expert, which is much easier isn't it: git clone git://ctrl.tukaani.org/xz.git You can grab and build the tarballs from the packages.foo.org pages (right-hand menu) or on the upstream website... Or motivate maintainers for your preferred environment... Incidentally, XZ sounds very much like Russian ХЗ acronym which can be roughly translated as hell knows meaning How do I know? :) I'm wondering if Andrey realized that :) Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Open Bodoni
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:20 AM, minombresbond wrote: El Fri, 7 Aug 2009 17:29:06 +0400 Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com escribió: FYI, http://www.libregraphicsworld.org/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=3 Alexandre http://www.libregraphicsworld.org/ - Why didn't you announced when the site was launched!? :) I think by blog is aggregated via both graphicsplanet.org and open fonts planet :) In fact I'll do a wider announcement when FAW and web links sections are settled down :) Alexandre
[OpenFontLibrary] gwdrawfonttool
FYI: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gwdrawfonttool/ Written in Python, using GTK+ and Cairo, this project is comprised of a canvas capable of drawing East-Asian character glyphs registered at the GlyphWiki project (http://glyphwiki.org), and so-called drawfonts which draw them in a specific style. Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] What's the big deal about @font-face anyway?
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: What I don't understand is, why is it a good idea to let website designers choose what font *I* read their text with? Think of paper books :) Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] What's the big deal about @font-face anyway?
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: This will change hopefully by the end of the year. Firefox plans to use HarfBuzz on all platforms. Speaking of which... What is the best way to track HarfBuzz progress? Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Should we offer EOT fonts (hosted from out the USA?)
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote: Despite popular television programmes :) in fact what happens first is you generally get a cease-and-desist letter. There's no point suing people who have no money, as taking people to court is expensive. Well, presumably Microsoft, Bitstream and Monotype is not as evil as MPAA... :) Alexandre
[OpenFontLibrary] use of (c) typefaces
Hi, Maybe we should have some kind of WhatTheFont client in admin panel to check uploaded fonts for being actually (c) typefaces? Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] use of (c) typefaces
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Ed Trager wrote: But I assume that the problem you are really trying to address is one of people copying glyph outlines into a new font that they claim to be their own? Yes For that kind of situation, one would, I assume, have to try to match glyph outlines against some searchable database of glyph outlines ... Exactly what I say :) sounds hard to do ... But it works Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] OFLB at LGM2009?
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: 2009/4/7 Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com: I've been putting off my LGM2009 flights/room bookings, and am now at the point where I have to say I really doubt I will be able to go. I have had a change of fortune and am now going to attend! :) A fortune in small change, possibly? Great! Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] OFLB at LGM2009?
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: Hi, I've been putting off my LGM2009 flights/room bookings, and am now at the point where I have to say I really doubt I will be able to go. Since I'd like to have the OFLBv2 progress presented there, I wonder who is definitely going, and would like to to offer help to someone to present OFLB at LGM2009. I'm still to get a visa, but tickets are bought, and since they are non-returnable, there is no way back :) Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Bruce Perens criticized SIL Open Font License
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: I heard a rumour that the Reading MATD portfolio site at www.typefacedesign.org has PDFs from which fonts were extracted and posted on some Chinese or Russian forum (communists, eh? ;-) The I can hear you! :) rumour was that the rips were of much lower quality than the student's real, unpublished, OTFs - incomplete metrics, glyph encodings wrong, that kind of thing. Extracting fonts from PDF and saving in editable form is not rocket science. You just grab Fontmatrix/SVN :) Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] OFL problems, IPA License annoyances
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: And as I said, I would prefer to avoid a new version of OFL until there is a real world example of the OFLv1.1 being defective; until then, the FAQ updates are the best response. Amen to that? :) Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] extraction issues
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: I agree, attempting extraction for that purpose is really abusing the author's willingness to put out a PDF specimen for review/critique regardless of the chosen licensing. http://fontmatrix.net/node/43 Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Bruce Perens criticized SIL Open Font License
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote: No, not at all -- it assumes that the type designers and vendors don't like people doing it, which _is_ true, by and large. I'm saying, let's not do things which we know will cause anger, bad publicity and potentially leave a lasting bad taste. Well, I hate to tell you, but apparently Pierre is up to implementing fonts extraction from other file formats like XPS :) He needed it for a project, so he did it. Limiting users just because they might do something bad means not trusting them. Now that's lasting bad taste. Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Font upload process
On 3/21/09, Dave Crossland wrote: By enforcing this level of professionalism, we naturally encourage a similar level of professionalism at the typographic level too. And of course we expect that when fontaine's report shows missing glyphs that this will encourage the font designers to go back and fill in the missing stuff. Exactly what we need :) Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] [Open Font Library] Upload Flagged
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Ed Trager wrote: If you know the right people (preferably those who control purse strings ;-) ) at Wikimedia, please keep plugging OFLB and see if we can get some $ from Wikimedia foundation to get OFLB done properly. I actually know Brianna from WIkimedia --- she participated at Inkscape Book Sprint in Paris last year. But I'm not really sure that Wikimedia has any $, not speaking about $$ or $$$, to share. Alexandre
[OpenFontLibrary] osifont
http://code.google.com/p/osifont/ In some european countries, CAD projects must have font which conform to IS0 3O98 specification. Comercial CADs has this font, but free CADs not. There is no available free font yet, so this project will fix this. This font will be created completely from the scratch. Font is created with free tools like FontForge, Inkscape, Gimp. Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Fwd: [CREATE] LGM 2009 update
2009/1/15 Dave Crossland wrote: FYI :) How many people from OFLB are planning to attend LGM? I am :-) Well, I will do my best, but no promises. Alexandre
Re: [Openfontlibrary] design service
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: I happen to have scans from a 1930s or so Soviet Russia font album. Interested? :-) If Liam isn't, please publish them on the web and add a note to the wiki at http://www.openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Font_Design#I_want_to_revive_a_historic_design Publish all 200 Mbytes on wiki? :-) Also, developing a high-quality typeface can be a lot of work; Microsoft spent over a million US dollars on Arial, I've heard. Other people report that Adobe's helvetica was digitized by kids of Adobe's founders :-) LOL Got a reference for that? :-) Not in English ;-) And the more correct version is early Adobe's Type1 fonts, not just Helvetica. Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] design service
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: Publish all 200 Mbytes on wiki? :-) Publish them on the web elsewhere and add a link to the wiki. OK If you need space, mail me offlist. Also, developing a high-quality typeface can be a lot of work; Microsoft spent over a million US dollars on Arial, I've heard. Other people report that Adobe's helvetica was digitized by kids of Adobe's founders :-) LOL Got a reference for that? :-) Not in English ;-) Я все уши :-) http://letterhead.ru/Thinges/opyt_03.html (a series of articles on fonts localization by Yuri Gordon) На самом деле представление о том, что крупные западные шрифтовые фирмы все делают с недоступной для нас аккуратностью, далеко от реальности. В особенности это касается старых шрифтов, к которым относится Гельветика. Эти шрифты были оцифрованы неизвестно когда, неизвестно кем и неизвестно каким инструментом. Помню, что Андрей Скалдин, наш основатель, рассказывал со слов каких-то западных людей, что первые Постскриптовские шрифты оцифровывали дети основателей Адобе Системз. Причем по самым разным оригиналам, полученным с разных фирм и в разных масштабах. Наверняка Гельветика входила в их число. Потом, правда, ее неоднократно переделывали, но вряд ли меняли эти размеры. Our impression that western type foundries do everything with precision we are not likely to ever reach is far from reality. This is especially true about old fonts like Helvetica. These typefaces were digitized by god knows who and using god knows which tools. I remember that Andrey Skaldin, our [Paratype] founder, told us once (and he was told that by other people) that early Postscript typefaces were digitized by children of Adobe's founders. Besides, doing this, they used different specimens taken from different companies and in different scales. Helvetica was most likely one of them. Later, of course, it was improved many times, but I very much doubt that descenders [that vary a lot, which was discussed in a previous paragraph] were changed. That's a quote from Vladimir Efimov. In the next paragraph he says the old digitized fonts mostly keep the look of the first digitization with all their rounding errors etc. Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] Non-Copyleft Openfontlibrary
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Ed Trager wrote: The whole reason for copyright law is to provide legal protections to authors of creative works, is it not? It is not. Sure, it's what copyright laws usually pretend to be, but never actually care to become. Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] openfontlibrary.com
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: http://www.openfontlibrary.com/ *shrugs shoulders* Well, the best of luck to them. Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] openfontlibrary.com
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Rob Myers wrote: Is the name a problem, project identity-wise? I do foresee general confusion, but I won't argue over that till I'm blue in the face. I have better things to do. I just hope that initiator of the second project is a reasonable person who won't put spokes into our wheels just because we are driving copyleft-path way and thus will use these domains only for redirecting to somewhere else :-) Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] Non-Copyleft Openfontlibrary
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Fontfreedom wrote: Initially, Openfontlibrary was created as a place for fonts dedicated to the Public Domain. I really don't know what made you jump at this conslusion. When I was pinging rejon three years ago about creating a OCAL like website for fonts, I didn't have PD in mind, neither had rejon from what I remember. This was all about fonts with source code/projects, freely distributable and modifiable. When I hear discussions, whether PD or OFL or GPL3 or whatever else is free enough and how exactly this enough should be defined, my head starts hurting and my antifreaks system goes to red alert mode. IMO, OFLB is a place for fonts which anyone can download, use for any purpose, modify or even sell (keeping in mind what SIL OFL 1.1 says about it). It shouldn't be a place for just free fonts, because it simply doesn't make sense competing with *most everybody else* around. Could we please be happy with PD, OFL and GPL and any other OSI approved license? Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] FontForge has direct support for DOWNLOADING and uploading!
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: 2008/11/1 Ben Weiner: perhaps a font where the glyph stems were nude figures Your speculation about an unsuitable font is illuminating, George ;-) I've seen 2 freeware fonts with naked chick clipart for glyphs :-) And you never contacted authors to relicense them under OFL? Drat! :-) Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] wiki spam
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: I disabled the blacklist that I believe Jon installed because blacklists have victims, and have been doing antispam by hand the last week while I find the time to set up a captcha that works. I'll try again now. Could you please try ReCaptcha instead? Seems to work fine for wiki.panotools.org Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] wiki spam
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Jon Phillips wrote: Heya all, we are getting massive wiki spam. Alexandre, didn't you install some spam plugins to help? No, because OSUOSL ignores me and my new ssh key Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] Font submissions
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:50 PM, John wrote: I need clarification on what fonts can be uploaded to the library. My personal collection is rather large and I'm sure that I can contribute but need to know what, other than copyrighted (commercial) or restricted licencing fonts, are not allowed. Hi John! Only Open Font License and Public Domain fonts are allowed to be uploaded. Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] domain name?
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre, what happened to openfontlibrary.org domain name? http://openfontlibrary.org/ Looks like the DNS info is screwy? What's up? Please update the dns!!! Someone must be cybersquatting... Can you please fix this asap and lock the domain or transfer to me or someone else on the project asap! I paid on August 14. They also haven't processed two of my other transactions done same day yet. I'm getting really sick of it. The domain department is notified, but I might not have answer today (they are closing at 7pm). Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] StixFonts license update
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: Well, it seems like they listened to recommendations from you and Barbara (and probably other reviewers and beta testers in the community): http://www.stixfonts.org/user_license.html http://www.stixfonts.org/STIXfaq.html That still doesn't make the fonts available :) Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] gbdfed 1.4 released (BDF bitmap font editor)
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Mark Leisher wrote: I'm new to the list and hope this is an appropriate place to announce this. http://www.math.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/Software/gbdfed For those of you unfamiliar with gbdfed, it aspires (when I have time) to be the fontforge for bitmap fonts. Just an idea: put a screenshot on a homepage ;-) Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] ATypI'08
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Jon Phillips wrote: Very cool! You are going to go, right? Right :) Is there travel funding? Most likely not. (Honestly, my one way ticket from Beijing last year was ca. $450 - not that much, but surely depends on life priorities :)) Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
[Openfontlibrary] ATypI'08
Hi, Just to let you know - ATypI'08 (which will be in St. Petersburg, Russia, this Spetember) registration of presenters is delayed till April, 14, so you still have time, if you wanted to do a talk :) Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] eh... wiki :)
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Kess Vargavind wrote: Now, isn't this clever, knowing that to be my IP? ;) Could someone please fix? Thanks fore reporting. Working on it. Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] SIL Encore fonts 3.0 font sources now released under OFL
2008/2/24 Nicolas Spalinger wrote: Hi all, SIL recently re-released under the Open Font License a big library of glyphs (in PostScript Type1 format) from an older font creation system called SIL Encore. It says Extended Cyrillic character set, but it was brouyght to my attention :) that ukrainian Ї, ї and russian ё seem to be absent in Doulos :) Misteriously, Ё (upper case for ё) is present indeed :) Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] fw: [Tipografia] [Gentium] Update #5 - Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic available for testing
On Nov 16, 2007 12:37 AM, Gustavo Ferreira wrote: ps: i wonder why this has not been annouced here? Or why SIL's announcements mailing list is silent despite of releases being out :( Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] eh... wiki :)
On 10/15/07, Jon Phillips wrote: Alexandre, could you followup with osuosl if this is still not working? It is working :) Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] Proposal for open font-related sessions/workshops at LGM08
On 9/28/07, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: ... - Future plans We wanted to make a fonts digitizing session this year, but this wasn't planned beforehand, so it didn't happen. I do have a bunch of scanned public domain fonts (printed in early 1930s and given to me by Valek) which cover the whole cyrillic and ukrainian glyph sets and numerals, but no latin. If we do organize such session next year, that would be a good start to actually using our SVN :) Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] Proposal for open font-related sessions/workshops at LGM08
On 9/28/07, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: We wanted to make a fonts digitizing session this year, but this wasn't planned beforehand, so it didn't happen. I do have a bunch of scanned public domain fonts (printed in early 1930s and given to me by Valek) which cover the whole cyrillic and ukrainian glyph sets and numerals, but no latin. If we do organize such session next year, that would be a good start to actually using our SVN :) Sorry, Open Font Library people: I stripped an important part from Nicolas's mail, where he suggests various font-related talks and activities during Libre Graphics Meeting 2008. Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
[Openfontlibrary] back
Greetings, One really hard kick for support service --- and http://openfontlibrary.org/ is back online finally. Cheers, Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] openfontlibrary.org still has no dns entry
On 06 Sep 2007 16:23:58 -0700, George Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: openfontlibrary.org still has no dns entry Can this be fixed? I'm bugging registration company right now. *sigh* Things couldn't be slower in this part of Earth :-/ Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] Well... what's the current IP address of the site?
On 9/3/07, Jon Phillips wrote: I'll fix this here today, hopefully. Just needed some time and money investment :) Alexandre Please do or pass this task on because I'm getting nonstop hate mail about and want this fixed yesterday... Action taken, waiting for results. Thanks everyone for help offers. Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
Re: [Openfontlibrary] URGENT: openfontlibrary.org
On 8/29/07, Dave Crossland wrote: On 29/08/2007, Jon Phillips wrote: Alexandre! Looks like openfontlibrary.org has been jacked or needs to be renewed! Can you do this asap!!! Seems jacked: So, what do we do now? I missed the whole thing being on vacation. Alexandre ___ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
