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Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?



Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> writes:

> Quoting Davide Viti (zinosat@tiscali.it):
>
>> I'll give a go at this: we might save a good amount of bytes removing duplicates.
>> Note that dejavu is the default font for g-i, so most languages would
>> probably share the Latin range of glyphs from it and not from freefont.
>
>
> I just tried to strip the Abyssinica_SIL.ttf font, re-using the
> freefont strip scripts and adding a range for latin:
>
> ranges="$ranges u0021:u02AF" # latin
>
> (note that this excludes all punctuation, parentheses, etc.)
>
> That gives the following result:
>
> rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle 619012 2006-05-19 15:15 Abyssinica_SIL.ttf
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bubulle bubulle 383768 2008-01-07 18:55 TTF-stripped/Abyssinica_SIL.ttf
>
> The udeb size goes from 220768 bytes to 183090 bytes

Impressive!

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