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Re: Tibetan Machine Uni font sources for the new version (v1.901)



On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:40:09PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 09 June 2008, Tom Söderlund wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:06 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Tom Söderlund wrote:
> > > > > [0] http://gamma.nic.fi/~t_om/debian/ttf-tmuni/
> > >
> > > if there are any major changes in the font that could affect the
> > > udeb or cause a significant change in its size, it would be nice to
> > > hear about those.
> >
> > The font file which is the sole content of the udeb package has grown a
> > bit over threefold from 1355768 bytes to 4511176 bytes.
> 
> Hmmm. That's not nice for the memory usage of the graphical installer.
> It would be good to look into that before the new version is uploaded.
> 
> Davide Viti is our current "fonts manager". Added him in CC in the hope 
> that he has time to contact you about this and see if that increase can 
> be reduced.

I've created PDF charts [1] for old and new version just to have a quick way
for comparing the two: new version does contain more glyphs indeed.

The obvious suggestion would be to introduce a mechanism fo stripping unneeded glyps
out of the udeb as we already do for ttf-dejavu [2] and ttf-freefont [3] packages.

3 megabytes difference is quite alot, and I'd like to dig a bit more to understand
if there's anything else which causes this increase: will probablyhave the chance
to work on this tomorrow evening.

BTW, I noticed the ttf file has been renamed from TibetanMachineUniAlpha.ttf to
TibMachUni-1.901b.ttf ; any particular reason for such change?

regards,
Davide

[1] http://alioth.debian.org/~zinosat-guest/ttf-tmuni/
[2] svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-fonts/packages/ttf-dejavu
[3] svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-fonts/packages/ttf-freefont

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