Closed tbonfort closed 12 years ago
Author: dmorissette Date: 2004/05/28 - 17:45
I believe relative paths should work in fontset files, we use relative paths in
the apps that we distribute. I remember a bug with font paths a while ago but I
thought it had been resolved... if not we would need a specific testcase to
reproduce and fix.
Norm, I'll letyou get back to Sean with the details about Fred's open source font.
Author: nsavard@mapgears.com Date: 2004/05/28 - 22:31
I used relative paths in the fonts.txt and Python tests ran correctly (see below).
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snipper of fonts.txt:
fritqat ./etc/fritqat.ttf
Author: nsavard@mapgears.com Date: 2004/05/28 - 22:33
In comment number two, you should read "snippet" instead of "snipper".
Author: dmorissette Date: 2004/05/28 - 23:11
That's not the "real" open source font that Fred found.
Fred, can you please comment.
Author: warnock@dmsolutions.ca Date: 2004/05/30 - 15:33
Gnome Foundation and Bitstream Inc. announced a long-term agreement to
bring high quality fonts to free software. Ten fonts will be released
for use under a special open license agreement, giving advanced font
capabilities to all free and open source software developers and users
So goodbye Fritquat hello Vera. Vera is a very nice font that will
serve us very well in making maps. Check out the details and download
this beauty at the gnome site below.
http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
you can read the press release at the bitstream website
http://www.bitstream.com/categories/news/press/2003_bitstream/012203_gnome.htm
you can see a preview of the fonts here
http://www.bitstream.com/categories/products/fonts/vera/index.html
This is a solution to a problem we've had for a long time. Most fonts
cannot be redristibuted and used in publishing because it contravenes
copyrights. Vera on the other hand is free, and the license is open to
redistribution, derivative works, and more. And it's a high quality
font (actually 10 fonts) as well, and should suite our mapping needs
very well.
Author: sgillies@frii.com Date: 2004/05/30 - 17:23
Excellent! I committed Vera.ttf and VeraBd.ttf to tests/vera, changed the
fonts.txt file and test.map, and made a change to one tests in the Python
tests to validate that it works. I like Vera's similarity to Verdana.
Committed to the CVS main (4.3). Thanks for the help and for encouraging
me to fix this, it certainly makes testing easier for users.
Reporter: sgillies@frii.com Date: 2004/05/28 - 16:43