Am 09.03.2012 00:02, schrieb Steve White:
For the future, I think only OpenType is moving forward though. I'm
keeping TrueType primarily for older systems.
While I agree that openType might be the format of the future, we
still need to have something we can offer to cups-filters, at least as
Hi Fabian,
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com wrote:
Am 09.03.2012 00:02, schrieb Steve White:
For the future, I think only OpenType is moving forward though. I'm
keeping TrueType primarily for older systems.
While I agree that openType might be the
Am 09.03.2012 11:07, schrieb Steve White:
I'm not sure what you're talking about here.
CUPS has switched to PDF-based printing. That means, roughly, if you
want to print a raw text file, e.g. 'lp ~/.bashrc', it needs to get
converted into a PDF file in one step of the process. A font is
Hi again Fabian,
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com wrote:
Am 09.03.2012 11:07, schrieb Steve White:
I'm not sure what you're talking about here.
CUPS has switched to PDF-based printing. That means, roughly, if you want to
print a raw text file, e.g.
Hey Steve,
Am Donnerstag, den 08.03.2012, 11:14 +0100 schrieb Steve White:
The TrueType and OpenType binaries *intended by the FreeFont people*
BTW, whatis the prefered font format by FreeFont upstream, Truetype or
Opentype? I am asking for two reasons:
1) In Debian we are switching to
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 08:15:43PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
Hey Steve,
Am Donnerstag, den 08.03.2012, 11:14 +0100 schrieb Steve White:
The TrueType and OpenType binaries *intended by the FreeFont people*
BTW, whatis the prefered font format by FreeFont upstream, Truetype or
Hi Khaled,
I agree as to a preference of cubic over quadratic splines, and also,
the conversion from cubic to quadratic splines loses information.
Both TrueType and OpenType are wrapper formats, that can contain
either cubic (Type1) or quadratic (TrueType) contours.
However some technologies
Am 08.03.2012 07:26, schrieb Christian PERRIER:
These scripts are not meant to build the whole font. Their purpose is
Sorry my friend, but this is not completely right. ;)
The script debian/scripts/convertfonts.sh is used in the
override_dh_install rule in debian/rules to actually build all
Hi Fabian,
It seems that we have a difference in perspective.
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com wrote:
Am 08.03.2012 07:26, schrieb Christian PERRIER:
These scripts are not meant to build the whole font. Their purpose is
Sorry my friend, but this is not
Am 08.03.2012 11:14, schrieb Steve White:
Now I've re-considered the SFD packaging. As I said, I had always
just followed precedent, but I think those tarballs would make better
sense if they included all the build scripts. So in the upcoming
release, you will be able to build the binaries *as
On 03/08/2012 05:14 AM, Steve White wrote:
Now I've re-considered the SFD packaging. As I said, I had always
just followed precedent, but I think those tarballs would make better
sense if they included all the build scripts. So in the upcoming
release, you will be able to build the binaries
Package: ttf-freefont
Version: 20100919-1
Severity: minor
Hi,
the ttf-freefont (the same is true for the otf-freefont package) package
currently includes a font file called
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/Untitled1.ttf. It is compiled from the
Malayalam.sfd file. I am not even sure if this is
Hello,
I'm adding the reply from the upstream author Steve (cced) which were
in private mail. Also ccing my friend Santhosh who is maintaining most
of Malayalam fonts While replying please keep them in CC
Santhosh,
Yes, I do know. It is an accident.
I had pulled the Malayalam letters
Quoting Vasudev Kamath (kamathvasu...@gmail.com):
Umm not sure how it is actually built but by looking at the package
source I see they are using some scripts which are located here
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-fonts/packages/ttf-freefont/trunk/debian/rules?view=markup
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