Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Nicolas Spalinger > <nicolas_spalinger@sil.org> wrote: > >> Also If you're looking for a nice open font to package I'd recommend >> Lavoisier: http://haikumonkey.net/?page_id=106 > > That seems to provide "source code" in FontLab format. Is there > anything in Debian that can convert FontLab files to TTF/OTF? There are various unrestricted utilities out there to help with that and we have an open-standards and interop promise for the next version of FontLab: See http://tinkerhouse.net/log/robothon-2009-day-2/ So it's certainly a good thing to have that extended source available as well. I'm preparing an article on font formats interop with more details. >> They are a few other open fonts I came across recently which I need to >> add to a wishlist section of our wiki page. > > Perhaps a FreeDesktop wiki page could be used to catalogue all fonts > useful for Free Software distros. Yep, exactly: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Fonts There are various place that we need to look at for our team "packaging pipeline": http://unifont.org/fontguide/ http://scripts.sil.org/OFL_fonts http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Existing_Free_Fonts (although that page should be renamed existing-libre-open-fonts). The Fedora team has: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Font_wishlist Cheers, -- Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary http://planet.open-fonts.org
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