fonts December 2009

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fontconfig config priority
by Akira TAGOH 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

Hi, I have a question and a suggestion for the fontconfig config priority in the font packaging policy. I'm writing a small script to validate the fontconfig config in packages to not mess up. the goal is to check if the priority is set accurately and the config files are following our templates. it roughly started working. but I'm not quite sure what "Latin" in LGC really covers. is it similar to what Latin-[1-10] covers? or more strictly applied? The suggestion is, about improving the policy to set the priority more strictly. I have two ideas: 1) have variety of the priorities for non-LGC fonts as well like for default, main and low perhaps. even though LGC fonts has a priority for default font, but not for non-LGC fonts. it may messes up their default font if multiple fonts with the same priority such as 65 are installed. this priority things could avoids this issue. it may be something like: 65-69 ... High priority non-LGC fonts 70 ... Main non-LGC font list 71-64 ... Low priority non-LGC fonts 2) describes what exactly "default", "Main" and "Low" priority means. during developing and testing this script, I see some packages is possibly wrongly set the priority to their fontconfig config files, for example, some font is set the priority to 57 that is supposed to be the default font, but not marked as mandatory in comps. so I'd suggest to update comps or change the priority like: - mandatory for higher priority - default for main priority - optional for low priority and update the policy with it as well. Any thoughts or comments are welcome. TIA, -- Akira TAGOH

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by Hiran Venugopalan 26 Dec '09

26 Dec '09

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Preview font package contents without installing first?
by Mike Waters 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

Hello, I need a couple of unusual fonts for a logo I'm doing for a friend's web site, and nothing like what I need is installed on this Fedora 11 machine. I see lots and lots of fonts in Gnome Package Manager that I can install. But is it possible to view them without installing them first? Is there a web site that shows what they look like? I've just spent a long time Googling and searching the Fedora forums, etc. for the answer but nothing found. TIA. Best regards, Mike

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woff and woffTools packages anyone want maintainership?
by paragn 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

Hi, I have packaged woff[1] and woffTools[2] but as I see no one has shown interest to review it so I have closed them as NOTABUG but I am still interested in those packages to see in Fedora. I am ready to review those packages. I just need someone to become maintainer. I can be co-maintainer for them. In case anyone is interested in these packages please open same bugzilla reviews that I have closed. I will then review it. Regards, Parag. [1]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541792 [2]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541793

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Re: FreeType patented bytecode interpreter now in rawhide
by Nicolas Mailhot 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Le Ven 4 décembre 2009 13:50, Matěj Cepl a écrit : > > Dne 4.12.2009 01:13, Behdad Esfahbod napsal(a): >> Since the patents covering the TrueType bytecode interpreter expired at >> the end of October, I've now built FreeType in rawhide with that part of >> code enabled. > > can we hope for the update in F12 as well, please? Given how any font rendering changes seems to degrade font rendering for some users, I'd very much prefer it went through a full release testing cycle before hitting unsuspecting users. -- Nicolas Mailhot

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FreeType patented bytecode interpreter now in rawhide
by Behdad Esfahbod 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Hi, Since the patents covering the TrueType bytecode interpreter expired at the end of October, I've now built FreeType in rawhide with that part of code enabled. Note that the subpixel stuff remains disabled as it was. behdad

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