Still here (was: Bitstream Vera fonts)

2004-11-23 Thread Michael Nordstrom
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > Robert/Mike, are you out there? I'm still here; I decided to take a 2-3 months "vacation" from Plucker to not burn out ;-) I'll be back "online" again in a couple of weeks... /Mike ___ plucker-de

Re: Bitstream Vera fonts

2004-11-23 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Alan Hoyle wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 at 00:18, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: I wonder if someone who lives in a country without software patents could compile PalmFontConv against a freetype2 library that has TT hinting enabled, and then could run the Bitstream Vera font family through PalmFontConv t

Re: Bitstream Vera fonts

2004-11-23 Thread Alan Hoyle
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 at 00:18, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: > I wonder if someone who lives in a country without software patents > could compile PalmFontConv against a freetype2 library that has TT > hinting enabled, and then could run the Bitstream Vera font family > through PalmFontConv to generate

Re: Bitstream Vera fonts

2004-11-23 Thread Blake Winton
Alexander R. Pruss wrote: Last night I just found about Sunrise. (Why no announcement on plucker-dev? Or did I miss it?) I think you might have missed it. Or perhaps it was only announced on the JPluck weblog... > With Sunrise and jPluck, is Plucker Desktop still very important? Given that Su

Re: Bitstream Vera fonts

2004-11-23 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
David A. Desrosiers wrote: (The patent issue is with the freetype2 library's TT hinting. For patent reasons, my official distribution of PalmFontConv uses ft2 in autohint mode.) I've ALWAYS changed the bytecode and Apple rendering on freetype on all of my systems, before I even install the Bit

Re: Bitstream Vera fonts

2004-11-22 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> (The patent issue is with the freetype2 library's TT hinting. For > patent reasons, my official distribution of PalmFontConv uses ft2 in > autohint mode.) I've ALWAYS changed the bytecode and Apple rendering on freetype on all of my systems, before I even install the Bitstream Vera or

Bitstream Vera fonts

2004-11-22 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
I wonder if someone who lives in a country without software patents could compile PalmFontConv against a freetype2 library that has TT hinting enabled, and then could run the Bitstream Vera font family through PalmFontConv to generate a nice set of antialiased Plucker fonts that we could all us