Hi all, debfonts is a very useful script. I think it would be good, Miriam, if you could join pkg-fonts, add it to our SVN and put the web page it generates on the pkg-fonts alioth website. Some enhancements it could use: * generating images for stable, testing, sid, experimental (and perhaps contrib/non-free with image generation on a whitelist basis) * support for rendering more fonts, *.otf for example could probably be added immediately * detecting compressed fonts, for example Helvetica.ttf.gz in libtheora-dev * support for checking source packages - not sure if there is an unpacked copy of all the source packages in Debian available, if so this could be done * better detection of the characters available, for eg: http://www.miriamruiz.es/debfonts/pkg-k3d.html * Making copyright information more visible. This is particularly important for fonts because maintainers fairly often miss non-free fonts in their packages. Some things it is useful for: * Weeding out all those zillions of copies of vera, dejavu, freesans and yudit fonts we have in debian * Weeding out non-free fonts and auditing copyright information * Asking maintainers to put interesting fonts in separate packages - games for example can have some nice decorative fonts * Finding suitable fonts at a glance or creating meta-packages at a glance - ttf-decorative would be nice to have for instance I note our beloved DPL has done some work on these for source packages: http://dunc-bank.zoy.org/lol-fonts.txt BTW, I hope to see everyone at debcamp & debconf, perhaps we could have a lightning talk about debfonts if you are coming Miriam and continue Sam's work on the non-free and duplicate fonts during debcamp & debconf. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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