and index the fonts, how do you ensure the continuity of the effort?
The idea of serving webfonts is I think a non-starter. The bandwidth
involved would be immense: who would provide the funding? And if
Google is providing the same service, what's the point?
Peter Baker
Oh, this is *very* good news. With IE on board, Safari and Chrome will
have to follow suit.
Peter
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi
>
> Microsoft has some nice demo pages of OT features on the web:
>
> http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/opentype/
>
> Cheers,
> D
My suggestion is to forget about Fontforge's auto-instruct and all
other tools and get hold of ttfautohint, here:
http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/
It is awesome.
Peter
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Laval Chabon wrote:
> Hi!
>
> In FontForge it is suggested to me to remove 'cvt' listing f
ile a bug at:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openfontlibrary/+milestone/0.5
>
> Christopher
>
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Peter Baker wrote:
>>
>> Congratulations on a really beautiful site! The layout is simple,
>> elegant and comprehensible and I really l
oosing a category is in
effect filtering the collection, so perhaps a drop-down list would be
redundant for that purpose, though I did find myself looking for one
and not finding it.
Just wishes, as I've said. The site is beautiful and functional right now.
Peter Baker
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012
On Thursday, March 29, 2012, wrote:
> **
> >In this proposal, we've tried to strike a balance between complexity
> >and aggressiveness of compression. The biggest gains by far come from
> >better compression of the glyf table (and eliminating the loca table
> >altogether), so basically this propos
Thanks to Dave, Vernon and Khaled for these replies. Khaled's solution
is the one that worked for me. I can't interpret the cryptic error
message ("0x06") that I got when I had two versions of Freetype
installed--perhaps ttfautohint was trying to use the wrong version.
But it's working now, and I l
Have any Linux users on this list gotten ttfautohint to work? And if
so, what distro are you using? ttfautohint requires Freetype 2.4.5,
but Ubuntu is still running 2.4.4 and is apparently not planning to
upgrade for another year or so (sheesh).
Alternatively, does anyone know if it's possible (or
A
are such that I believe that is the best solution. With MS Word now
supporting OpenType, along with Apple Works and Mellel (when oh when
will Libre/Open/NeoOffice catch up?), there's little reason not to
take this route.
Peter Baker
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Nathan Willis wrote:
&
Paul,
Did you build it yourself? There's apparently no Ubuntu package, and
I'm having trouble building from source . . .
Peter
On Sunday, June 5, 2011, Paul Flo Williams wrote:
> [Reposted here at Christopher's suggestion]
>
> My first upload to the reborn Open Font Library was Segment14, and i
for images, or OFLB can automatically display any image files
> inside the zip.
>
> Would you consider filing a feature request for your ideal set-up?
>
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openfontlibrary/+addspec
>
> - Christopher
>
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Dave Cross
mething like this,
> calling it "showcase"
>
> There might be another example usage as well...
>
> Jon
>
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Peter Baker wrote:
>> Is OFL now making any use of sample images? I made one for my Eadui
>> font (just re-submitted-
Is OFL now making any use of sample images? I made one for my Eadui
font (just re-submitted--a new version, so don't restore the old one),
but I couldn't see where it might actually be used. If they are used,
are there any guidelines for filenames?
Peter
And I see that it was working again just a few minutes later. P.
On Sunday, May 22, 2011, Christopher Adams wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Peter Baker wrote:
>> Warning: Error establishing mySQL database connection.
>
> This error means that we have lost connec
Warning: Error establishing mySQL database connection. Correct
user/password? Correct hostname? Database server running? in
/var/www/openfontlibrary.org/htdocs/system/database/mysql.php on line
119
Warning: mySQL database connection is not active in
/var/www/openfontlibrary.org/htdocs/system/datab
The new site looks great! Congratulations to all who worked on it.
Should those of us who contributed fonts to the old site resubmit
them, or will they eventually be moved over?
Peter Baker
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:49 PM, j...@rejon.org wrote:
> Heya Ben! http://launchpad.net/openfontlibr
Yes, you can see it work if you point an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad here:
http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/aspr
Mobile Safari uses the stripped-down version of Junicode just fine,
but it doesn't display ligatures or contextual variants.
And with that, is there any browser left that require
If you know a little Python you can write a short script that will do
it for you.
Peter
On Monday, November 15, 2010, Felix E. Klee wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>> It should be easy to create your own font, fire up FontForge,
>
> Have never used, but if it's sim
Hard to imagine an open source font designer ponying up £50 to be
considered for this.
Peter
On Saturday, October 30, 2010, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Might be of interest to folks here...
>
> - - - - - 8< - - - -
>
> The Type Annual will showcase typeface design itself rather than work
> t
The ct ligature is present as a discretionary ligature in a number of
fonts, including some free ones. In general the oddball glyphs are
present in fonts made for specialized purposes. In a general-purpose
font they'd just be bloat.
On Tuesday, August 3, 2010, wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> What sort of wei
Thanks, Dave.
Funny: I think my main concern was that people shouldn't think me the
kind of user who hits a button again if nothing happens right away. :)
Peter
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi Peter!
>
> On 11 July 2010 15:19, Peter Baker wrote:
>
I just uploaded a font named "Eadui"--and it appears twice, as nos.
177 and 178, though I swear I only clicked the button once. I tried to
delete the extra copy, but it's still there.
I suppose this is one of those little things that will be fixed when
the new machinery is rolled out.
Peter
I love the old humanist serif typefaces: if I had time to launch a new
font project, I'd be looking at the Griffo/Manutius types. But
ultimately the only thing that gets you through a project as big as a
typeface project is making a thing you want to use yourself.
Someone asked about Junicode: it'
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Nicolas Mailhot
wrote:
>
> Dejavu and Andrey Panov's Heuristica are two examples that get it right
> (good releases, in source format, with clear licensing and makefiles
> that just work, simple versions, changes tracked in a public vcs one can
> easily consult to
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Ben Laenen wrote:
> Eric Schrijver wrote:
>> For now I agree with Dave that XgridFit would be the most logical format
>> to use, since it is already an XML based format and already in use in
>> the FOSS toolchain…
>
> But will Fontlab etc really support a whole new
fontforge-us...@lists.sourceforge.net
But very likely it is some kind of temporary glitch with the
SourceForge servers, fixed before too long.
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:52 PM, wrote:
> I noticed this Error on the Fontforge sourceforge.net website
> (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/):
>
> http
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Ben Laenen wrote:
> Dave Crossland wrote:
>> Like the XGF format?
>
> Don't know. But we need to have some distinction here between
>
> * how you edit the instructions in a program
> * how it's saved in the file
>
> Is the xgridfit format good to write down instruc
On Monday, June 14, 2010, Schrijver
> You could actually come up with collaboration strategies around Fontforge’s
> own format too; I think they made a plain-text version of it for this
> purpose. (And I think this is in Nicolas’ templates as well). The main reason
> why you would want to use UF
There are also some Mac emulation keyboards that you can select--I use
these a lot since I use both Ubuntu and the Mac.
On Saturday, June 12, 2010, Schrijver wrote:
> Hi Cristopher, Hi Dave,
> Nice to hear from you.Thanks a bunch for your suggestions!
> I tried it shortly but it wasn’t working ou
The message I saw earlier today--and it's still there now--was
This domain is for sale.
Please contact doma...@zou.info
I'll chip in if it's not too expensive.
Peter
On Thursday, June 10, 2010, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 15:59 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
>
>> I have oflb.o
Yes, grab oflb.com too.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have oflb.org and I redirect it to openfontlibrary.org.
>
> We could do the opposite of this, to reduce confusion with
> openfontlibrary.{net,com}
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Regards, Dave
It sounds to me as if he doesn't understand Open Source: if he did he
wouldn't have posted a font on OFL. Perhaps if it's explained to him
he'll revise his licensing terms.
Peter
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jon Phillips wrote:
> Why don't you try to convince him first.
>
> Jon Phillips
> u
hope
folks will enjoy having a simple way to discover which OFL fonts have
glyphs that answer some particular need.
Best wishes,
Peter Baker
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