[Bug 456345] Review Request: sportrop-fonts - A multiline decorative font

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: sportrop-fonts - A multiline decorative font https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456345 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL

[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: No OpenType https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455995 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-07-23 07:19 EST --- I dare you to

[Bug 456345] Review Request: sportrop-fonts - A multiline decorative font

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: sportrop-fonts - A multiline decorative font https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456345 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL

[Bug 445291] button labels fail if language support is a subset

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: button labels fail if language support is a subset https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445291 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed

[Bug 445291] button labels fail if language support is a subset

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: button labels fail if language support is a subset https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445291 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed

[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: No OpenType https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455995 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-07-23 11:19 EST --- Created an

[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: No OpenType https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455995 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-07-23 11:21 EST --- Created an

[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: No OpenType https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455995 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-07-23 11:34 EST --- Created an

[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: No OpenType https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455995 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-07-23 11:37 EST --- Last note on

[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: No OpenType https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455995 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-07-23 11:40 EST --- (In reply to

[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: No OpenType https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455995 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-07-23 11:54 EST --- 1) depends on

[Bug 445291] button labels fail if language support is a subset

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: button labels fail if language support is a subset https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445291 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed

[Bug 16818] fontformat in match pattern is not respected?

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16818 Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added CC||fedora-fonts-bugs-

[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: No OpenType https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455995 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-07-23 15:28 EST --- Vasile, are

[Bug 455995] No OpenType

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: No OpenType https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455995 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-07-23 17:06 EST --- (In reply to

[Bug 454078] Review Request: khmeros-fonts - Khmer free/libre font set created by Danh Hong of the Cambodian Open Institute

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: khmeros-fonts - Khmer free/libre font set created by Danh Hong of the Cambodian Open Institute https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454078

[Bug 454078] Review Request: khmeros-fonts - Khmer free/libre font set created by Danh Hong of the Cambodian Open Institute

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: khmeros-fonts - Khmer free/libre font set created by Danh Hong of the Cambodian Open Institute https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454078

[Bug 445291] button labels fail if language support is a subset

2008-07-23 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: button labels fail if language support is a subset https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445291 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed

Re: Mukti fontset license

2008-07-23 Thread Michal Nowak
ping? On 10:11 Wed 16 Jul , Michal Nowak wrote: Hi, Fedora Linux distribution considered packaging Your Mukti fontset, but we found out that the license is GPLv2+, which we consider as excellent for software but not for fonts. The problem we see is that when you embed the font inside

Re: contact kurditgroup

2008-07-23 Thread Michal Nowak
ping? On 09:57 Wed 16 Jul , Michal Nowak wrote: Hi Bardaqani, sorry for not being clear on this for the first time. The problem with GPL licensed font is that when you for example create PDF file (like a book) the you usually embed the font inside the document and then is anyone able

TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Hi all, We have several issues posing the problem of dual OTF/TTF fonts packaging. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456345 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455995 Till now we've managed to avoid this issue, however it seems we can't escape Fedora guidelines on the subject

Re: Call for OpenType fonts! [Was: Re: Fwd: [Fwd: the ivory tower and the bazaar]]

2008-07-23 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most people using OOo probably don't have clue what features OpenType provides, mostly because they've only seen Arial and Times New Roman. So I don't expect widespread requests from the userbase... Btw, is there a way

Re: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 23 juillet 2008 12:23, Vasile Gaburici a écrit : I'll share my thoughts in more detail later -- I'm in a hurry now. One bit I was going to say: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. I don't know what algorithm fontconfig uses to choose between

Re: contact kurditgroup

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Hi Michal, Many thanks for sending those (and CC-ing the list). Many thanks to Martin-Gomez Pablo for doing the same. I know it's not exciting work (but it is necessary). If upstream does not answer after a while we of course still have the option to package those fonts under GPL without

Re: contact kurditgroup

2008-07-23 Thread Vasile Gaburici
What are the implications of a GPL'd pdf? Having to give the (LaTeX or whatever) source? Having to allow others to modify said source? On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Michal, Many thanks for sending those (and CC-ing the list). Many thanks to

Re: contact kurditgroup

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 23 juillet 2008 13:00, Vasile Gaburici a écrit : What are the implications of a GPL'd pdf? Having to give the (LaTeX or whatever) source? Having to allow others to modify said source? I think the implications are mostly you can not tell someone here is my pdf document, you can look at

Re: contact kurditgroup

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 23 juillet 2008 13:47, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : The LGPL seems not to suffer from the GPL problems when applied to fonts (but I've not done a deep analysis, IANAL). Strangely enough it's rarely used and Free Software oriented projects seem to prefer the GPL, which forces us to do the

Re: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Jon Stanley
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, We have several issues posing the problem of dual OTF/TTF fonts packaging. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456345 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455995 Till now we've managed to avoid

Re: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 10:53 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Hi all, We have several issues posing the problem of dual OTF/TTF fonts packaging. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456345 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455995 Till now we've managed to avoid this issue,

Re: packager for liberation sans derivative needed (was: Re: Call for OpenType fonts!)

2008-07-23 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/22 Gustavo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i plan to release an extended version* of the family (under a different name) in september/october through my foundry. Wow! This is really great news Gustavo! :-) [the fonts were designed in the 'ivory tower' way No problem with that at all :-)

Re: Analysis of combining diacritics support

2008-07-23 Thread Ben Laenen
On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Vasile Gaburici wrote: - DejaVu has positioning issues The positioning issue you see is likely a problem that T doesn't have a cedilla anchor in Serif. Normally an easy fix. That's why renderers should have fall-back options (like Qt has). Usually these fall backs

Re: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 23 juillet 2008 à 11:51 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 10:53 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: 2. I don't know what algorithm fontconfig uses to choose between several formats of the same fonts, or even if its choices are stable. It uses the version number

Re: packager for liberation sans derivative needed (was: Re: Call for OpenType fonts!)

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 23 juillet 2008 à 17:12 +0100, Dave Crossland a écrit : 2008/7/22 Gustavo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: if anyone is interested in testing the fonts on linux and taking care of the packaging, please drop me a line. I've been meaning to get set up for packaging fonts for Debian

Re: Analysis of combining diacritics support

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 23 juillet 2008 à 18:13 +0200, Ben Laenen a écrit : Because font foundries select their character sets based on the market demand, Because font foundries select their character sets based on the countries they want to sell fonts to… they don't see a lot of merit in adding

Re: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 23 juillet 2008 à 14:36 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 20:14 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Can you patch fontconfig so apps get OTF (OpenType CFF) versions by default, unless they explicitely request OpenType TTF files? (when the same version of the

Re: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Vasile Gaburici
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In practice you can approximate cubic splines by just cutting cubic segments in many quadratic ones, which font editors like fontforge do automatically, and at the sizes text is typically rendered there's no visible

Suffix for Old Standard ?

2008-07-23 Thread Martin-Gomez Pablo
Hi, As I'm attempting to create a package of the (great) Old Standard font, I have mail the founder and have got the answer (forwarded). The answer is quite harsh (if that I spare you the anti-source building paragraph. So we need to add a suffix to the name but I'm not imaginative for finding a

Re: Suffix for Old Standard ?

2008-07-23 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/23 Martin-Gomez Pablo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So we need to add a suffix to the name but I'm not imaginative for finding a good suffix (maybe iced as Nicolas propose), anyone of you have an lightning idea ? Why not use a build of FF from the same time the source files were published? --