Hi Steve, On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:59:38AM +0100, Steve White wrote: > Davide, > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Davide Viti <zinosat@tiscali.it> wrote: > > > > unfortunately it turns out that current version of fontforge available in Debian > > can't deal with the sfd format used in freefont (see [1]) making the ttf files > > completely unusable. Do you know which version of fontforge should be used at least? > > > I'm sorry, this doesn't make sense. > > How does FontForge being able to read the ttf files reflect on their usablility? > The ttf files are for installation in operating systems, and have been > tested on several. I meant that the version of fontforge currently in Debian cannot "build" usable ttf files starting from sfd files; since every binary package shipped is built from source (i.e. Debian does not ship ttf files as provided from upstream), it is a real problem. regards, Davide
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