Re: Linux Fonts
In case Dustin doesn't pick up on this today ...
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:32:15AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> I'll check it out asap. Have you viewed it in linux yet?
I have viewed the font with gfontview. It looks OK in a few sizes and not
so OK in some others. So I'm guessing the hinting is not perfect yet
(either that, or this is a limitation of libttf's handling of the hinting
... hmm, as an aside, I wonder why gfontview uses libttf2 (Freetype 1) and
not libfreetype6 (Freetype 2)?
> Or do you
> mean it looks flawless onscreen in windows?
Dustin will have to answer that.
> Is your font truetype?
Yes.
> If noone else has offered, I'd love to package this font for inclusion
> in debian, or include it a free-ttfonts package with a few other gpl
> tt fonts.
I question the name free-ttfonts. The convention seems to be:
ttf[-foundryname]-fontorfamilyname
I don't see any value in the designation 'free'. Of course everything in
Debian main is free. I also don't see any point in bundling fonts from
different sources. So why not simply ttf-dustismo?
Ben
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