Comments | mihmo: Another Shameless Font Packaging Request

mihmo

Another Shameless Font Packaging Request

Oct 31, 2008 16:30

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What do I need to do? ext_114082 October 31 2008, 21:57:27 UTC

Actually I was looking for a Futura based font for a D&D module.. since the original D&D items used a New Gothic or Futura depending on who you talked to.

Re: What do I need to do? ext_114082 October 31 2008, 23:10:51 UTC

http://smooge.fedorapeople.org/EL-5/beteckna-fonts-0.3-1.el5.noarch.rpm
http://smooge.fedorapeople.org/EL-5/SRPMS/beteckna-fonts-0.3-1.el5.src.rpm

Don't know what to do next with it.. or how to really test them. Do we use OTF fonts?

Re: What do I need to do? mihmo November 1 2008, 00:11:11 UTC

Let me ask on fedora-font-list because I'm not 100% sure myself - or you can ask nimnim on freenode (##fonts) if I don't get back to you quickly enough

Re: What do I need to do? ivazquez November 1 2008, 08:09:14 UTC

OTF fonts work in any application that uses fontconfig. Sadly, OpenOffice.org does not.

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ext_30240 October 31 2008, 23:03:16 UTC

package cat. hehehehehe.

Droid fonts ext_131337 November 1 2008, 06:04:22 UTC

There's another high-quality font with extensive Unicode coverage that just became available under the Apache license: the Android font "Droid"...

http://www.ascendercorp.com/pr/pr2007_11_12.html
http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtesy-of-google-ascender

It would be great to have this packaged for Fedora too!

Re: Droid fonts mihmo November 2 2008, 01:16:46 UTC

Hey thanks for the tip! :) I'm glad to hear it has been put under an open license. Garrett had mentioned it to me some weeks ago but at the time the license was still up in the air. I'll file the wishlist request and campaign for it next :) :)

Re: Droid fonts ext_131337 November 2 2008, 17:01:04 UTC

Sadly there are still various problems with the licensing.
Haven't found the time to contact the Android folks about this yet. If you ping them can you make the case for a more community-friendly approach? Thanks. They may wall be convinced by the package cat :- )

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yosch
http://planet.open-fonts.org

Great font, thanks for the tip! anonymous November 1 2008, 16:52:56 UTC

Now I can throw Futura out of my font collection.

nicubunulj November 3 2008, 07:37:32 UTC

Now for the next font request you have to do a "i can has font"...

I am frustrated with my cat, he's perfect for lolcats (100% black)), I have some neat ideas[*], but he's totally uncooperative for photo shooting (i don't blame him, he had some bad experiences when he was a kitten).

[*] something like "the basement cat does not want you to try the latest fedora"