Bug#1108954: ITP: freecad-font-y14.5-2018-nonfree -- Y14.5-2018 technical drawing font for FreeCAD
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : freecad-font-y14.5-2018-nonfree
Upstream Contact: Peter Kanold
* URL : https://peterkanold.com/fonts/
* License : non-free
Description : Y14.5-2018 technical drawing font for FreeCAD
This package provides the Y14.5-2018 font, a sans-serif TrueType font
designed to conform closely to the ASME Y14.5-2018 standard for
dimensioning and tolerancing used in technical and engineering drawings.
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The font is ideal for CAD environments and applications that require
adherence to precise engineering documentation standards. It emulates
the traditional technical lettering style found on mechanical and
architectural blueprints.
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The TechDraw workbench of FreeCAD can utilize this font to produce
dimensioned drawings that align with the ASME Y14.5-2018 standard.
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The Y14.5 font is only required for drawings that need to comply with ASME
standards. It is not required for documents following ISO or no standards.
The font is non-free, as the permsission to modify the font is not spelled out
in the license, and an discussion in a FreeCAD issue
(https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/issues/18622) the author only provide a
personal license for FreeCAD and associated parties.
FreeCAD will perfectly fine without this font, just the TechDraw Workbench will
issue a warning without this font, and the AMSE features won't be available.
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