Zip archive for non-technical users

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There needs to be an easily downloadable archive containing all the fonts. 

Not all web designers know how to use Mercurial. If these fonts are going to be 
used, the TrueType 
files need to be easily accessible for non-technical users. 

Please add a zip archive to the downloads section of this project.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by joemal...@gmail.com on 21 May 2010 at 1:16

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Mac = Unix-like = The command "ln" don't it?

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Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send
OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/

Decent, recommended by me, non-proprietary, patent free, royalty free, FOSS
archive formats:

   - *XZ* http://tukaani.org/xz/format.html
   - TAR.GZ (If you must.)
   - PEA http://www.peazip.org/pea-archiving-utility.html

A multi platform archiver progam:
http://www.peazip.org/
A comparison of formats:
http://tukaani.org/lzma/benchmarks.html
http://www.peazip.org/peazip-compression-benchmark.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_archivers

mp3,acc,wma,rma,ect audio formats are all *rubbish*!
Decent audio formats:

   - *Vorbis* (lossy) http://www.vorbis.com/
   - *FLAC* (lossless) http://flac.sourceforge.net/
   - *Speex* (for voice, lossy) http://www.speex.org/

For multimedia containers, I like/love:
*MKV* http://www.matroska.org/
WebM http://www.webmproject.org/
OGG http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
FLAC (Audio only. Use with the FLAC audio format.)

Good Video formats:

   - *VP8* http://www.webmproject.org/ or H.264
   - *Theora* http://www.theora.org/ or VC-1
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC-1
   - *No* mpeg4/divx/xvid please! If you can help it. Take you time with
   encoding. I don't mined 12hour long ones! Aim for best quality.

The *word* “hack, *hacker*, hacking, hacked, etc” is *often misused*. It
does not mean nasty, evil stuff. *Cracker* is the word you want. See:

   - http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is
   - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Hacker
   - (Great documentary to watch!)
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5621742/Hackers_Wanted%5BUnreleased_Director__s_
Cut%5DDVDRip_H264-BeLLBoY

   <http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5621742/Hackers_Wanted%5BUnreleased_Director__s_Cut%5DDVDRip_H264-BeLLBoY%20>http://torrentfreak.com/unreleased-hackers-wanted-movie-leaks-to-bittorrent-100520/

   <http://torrentfreak.com/unreleased-hackers-wanted-movie-leaks-to-bittorrent-100520/%20>
   http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/hackers-wante/

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Original comment by abushcra...@gmail.com on 9 Sep 2011 at 8:29

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Please note the subject of this thread defines it as for "non-technical users."

Talk of Terminal commands, Mercurial, sym links and such is simply out
of bounds for the intended audience. Not to be a crab about it, but
that's not going to work for 99.9% of your user base, even if it is
easy to do.

_______________________________

Luis Antezana / Creative Technologist

206.973.3861

@luckylou

On Sep 9, 2011, at 1:29 PM, "googlefontdirectory@googlecode.com"
<googlefontdirectory@googlecode.com> wrote:

Original comment by antezana...@gmail.com on 9 Sep 2011 at 8:37

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If the mac GUI is any good than there should be options in the GUI to make
symbolic links. I mention the command because that was easy for me. As my
sig says I don't use apple so I know basically nothing about using it.

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This sig is a long one.....................

I'm *on **identi <http://identi.ca/alexanderstross>

*

When you *share* a email address on the Internet *please* protect it from
spam spiders!
I recommend using *reCAPTCHA*: http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/

My *protected* email address:
http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01X0uFh0_II-DVISwU7Xd4bQ==&c=4L574G
i17lrOMNqUMTubhcPKY3CoeNHCDFTh9PJb1pg=

Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send
OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/

Decent, recommended by me, non-proprietary, patent free, royalty free, FOSS
archive formats:

   - *XZ* http://tukaani.org/xz/format.html

   - TAR.GZ (If you must.)
   - PEA http://www.peazip.org/pea-archiving-utility.html

A multi platform archiver progam:
http://www.peazip.org/

A comparison of formats:
http://tukaani.org/lzma/benchmarks.html

http://www.peazip.org/peazip-compression-benchmark.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_archivers

mp3,acc,wma,rma,ect audio formats are all *rubbish*!
Decent audio formats:

   - *Vorbis* (lossy) http://www.vorbis.com/

   - *FLAC* (lossless) http://flac.sourceforge.net/

   - *Speex* (for voice, lossy) http://www.speex.org/

For multimedia containers, I like/love:
*MKV* http://www.matroska.org/

WebM http://www.webmproject.org/

OGG http://www.xiph.org/ogg/

FLAC (Audio only. Use with the FLAC audio format.)

Good Video formats:

   - *VP8* http://www.webmproject.org/

   or H.264
   - *Theora* http://www.theora.org/

   or VC-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC-1

   - *No* mpeg4/divx/xvid please! If you can help it. Take you time with
   encoding. I don't mined 12hour long ones! Aim for best quality.

The *word* “hack, *hacker*, hacking, hacked, etc” is *often misused*. It
does not mean nasty, evil stuff. *Cracker* is the word you want. See:

   - http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is

   - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Hacker

   - (Great documentary to watch!)
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5621742/Hackers_Wanted%5BUnreleased_Director__s_
Cut%5DDVDRip_H264-BeLLBoY

   <http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5621742/Hackers_Wanted%5BUnreleased_Director__s_Cut%5DDVDRip_H264-BeLLBoY%20>

   http://torrentfreak.com/unreleased-hackers-wanted-movie-leaks-to-bittorrent-100520/

   <http://torrentfreak.com/unreleased-hackers-wanted-movie-leaks-to-bittorrent-100520/%20>

   http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/hackers-wante/

Stop Software Patents!

Proudly using distributions of GNU/Linux. No m$ or apple!

Original comment by abushcra...@gmail.com on 9 Sep 2011 at 8:58

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Aliases in OS X are very similar to symbolic links (see here: 
http://blog.julipedia.org/2007/01/mac-os-x-aliases-and-symbolic-links.html), 
anyhow... all a bit off topic.

And that signature... seriously ???

Original comment by nat...@ninefour.co.uk on 9 Sep 2011 at 9:05

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What about it? I am not completely happy with it my self. It's in development. 
I could put it in a webpage and link to it but who would click the link? So I 
don't know. Any thoughts welcomed. Why the sig? It's out of frustration.

Though I did decide not post using email again before your post.

Will keep on topic for now on. So email me instead, your thoughts about my sig.

Original comment by abushcra...@gmail.com on 9 Sep 2011 at 9:16

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Don't get me wrong, the signature is wonderful in it's own right - just makes 
scanning the thread very hard! :)

Original comment by nat...@ninefour.co.uk on 9 Sep 2011 at 9:58

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I agree it was very confusing while I tried to look through it,
expecting it to be about the thread topic.

Why not make it much shorter and have a link to a page and use one
different good point every now and then as like an advertisement to
get people to look at the main link you provide?

Like make the signature say  things like ... " Did you know
LibreOffice can now import SVG graphics and let you edit them in Draw?
Visit here to find out more about OpenSource free software...<your
link>

Original comment by paul.a.norman on 9 Sep 2011 at 10:45

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Why not email this person per their request, or start a new thread about 
"Signatures"? Most of us are only interested in the Google font/Zip archive 
discussion! Thanks :)

Original comment by marinhan...@gmail.com on 9 Sep 2011 at 11:01

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I was hoping to tie it off with what I said but you have extended it!

Original comment by paul.a.norman on 9 Sep 2011 at 11:20

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For what it's worth, I've just tested it on my MacBook. Aliases created in the 
Finder *do not* install as fonts when dragged into ~/Library/Fonts, but 
symlinks created using the command line do.

No idea why Apple didn't just decide to replace 'classic' aliases with proper 
Unix symlinks... perhaps for compatibility with older OSes? I have no idea.

Anyway, there actually is a GUI-based solution for creating Unix-style symlinks 
using the Finder that I found on Macworld's blog:
http://www.macworld.com/article/153437/2010/08/symlinkservice.html

Original comment by codeman38 on 10 Sep 2011 at 4:09

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Oops, ignore the above. I could've sworn I'd tested this in the past and 
symlinks worked in Font Book, but it turns out that I was misremembering. *Even 
Unix-style symbolic links are not recognized as fonts in ~/Library/Fonts.* My 
mistake!

(The reason I was misremembering is that this *does* work in X11-based Unix 
apps on OS X... but these, needless to say, are an extreme minority of OS X 
apps.)

Original comment by codeman38 on 10 Sep 2011 at 4:19

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Why is there no way to download all of the files in one ZIP file? As a designer 
(NOT A PROGRAMMER) using AI and PSD to design site before they are handed off 
to the coders to do their thing, I need to be able to try out and use fonts in 
those programs. Downloading on at a time is too cumbersome .

Original comment by arthur.r...@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2011 at 5:56

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Arthur, have a look at this:

http://joemaller.com/1856/download-google-fonts/

Direct download link:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/joemaller_google_webfonts/googlewebfonts.tgz

Thanks to Joe Maller

Original comment by ebroomfi...@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2011 at 6:28

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I agree!

Original comment by chechuon...@gmail.com on 5 Nov 2011 at 5:15

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Many thanks to Joe Maller for providing the link to the fonts. 

Original comment by Le.Petit...@gmail.com on 9 Nov 2011 at 5:00

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A simple way to obtain and update the Google Fonts is definitely necessary.
I'd like to also see the fonts available in Linux repositories (Centos, Ubuntu).

My thanks to Joe Maller as well for making my life easier!

Original comment by malmathe...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2012 at 3:23

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This is a no-brainer. Please provide download links for each font!

Original comment by kris.kha...@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2012 at 3:40

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the last time I used webfonts, at the very end of the process of choosing 
fonts, it gave me a link to download a zip file of the fonts in my collection, 
in addition to the code to embed the fonts directly. 

Original comment by jacob.brunson on 27 Feb 2012 at 3:06

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There are currently 455 font families.
Downloading each set with a link would be a long and tedious process.
Selecting them all and then downloading a collection would be faster, but still 
a long and boring process.

Original comment by tim...@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2012 at 3:08

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I agree on this as even following the guide. I'm getting error.

Original comment by sq01...@gmail.com on 9 May 2012 at 1:31

Attachments:

• [sq01neo — bash — 80×24.png](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/googlefontdirectory/issue-2/comment-70/sq01neo — bash — 80×24.png)

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@sq01neo  I am seeing the same thing, although I get one step further to 
`adding file changes`.  I would guess a connection timeout, although at which 
end I am not sure.  Perhaps this needs a new issue to be created so that it 
gets more attention.

Original comment by philip.r...@gmail.com on 10 May 2012 at 2:54

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same issue as #70
and +1 for a handy zip

Original comment by kappe0sa...@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2012 at 12:02

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Thank you Mr. Mailer!! I'm getting my website redone and need to be able to cut 
n paste my own text on my own text documents to check visual font 
compatibility-- I do NOT like being forced to do such things on a web browser. 
I also like to have an archive. I went through and selected about 114 of the 
501 fonts and want to sift through those as well. Add one to the chorus, you've 
made my life easier with the zip folder.

Original comment by paulruck...@gmail.com on 11 Jul 2012 at 6:35

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Github mirror: https://github.com/w0ng/googlefontdirectory

Same idea as Joe Maller. Updated weekly.

Original comment by akamch...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2012 at 1:59

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That is a great idea! Thanks for the github mirror.

Original comment by sq01...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2012 at 2:04

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The github repo is nice, thanks.

Original comment by daniel.s...@klinsight.com on 8 Aug 2012 at 1:28

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thanks for the github repo.

Original comment by juandani...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2012 at 1:31

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Hi,

That is a great help - just one thing though sometimes the fonts have
specific details in their readme files regarding the individual font
license, are those license notes included somewhere in the zip at all
please?

Paul

Original comment by paul.a.norman on 8 Aug 2012 at 10:58

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Great! Thanks for this. Was searching for two fonts for mockups and dev. What a 
pain.

Original comment by mikeanne...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2012 at 6:28

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Yeah, this is rediculous. It needs to be something similar to how 
SubtleGradients does theres:

http://subtlepatterns.com/
https://github.com/subtlepatterns/SubtlePatterns

Original comment by RBro...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2013 at 5:50

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My dearest...
Thanks to this guy we finally have a solution

https://github.com/w0ng/googlefontdirectory

Original comment by s.nicol...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2013 at 12:10

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I just wrote a shell script which fetches the up to date archive from
http://joemaller.com/1856/download-google-fonts/, extracts it and merges it
with my server's central font directory, then deletes the download. Add in
a weekly cron job and you're sorted :)

. . . .
Pecked out on a black mirror

Original comment by laurence...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2013 at 12:48

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You can now use Monotype SkyFonts to conveniently download the fonts. 

Original comment by dcrossland@google.com on 17 Jun 2013 at 7:02

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All zipball download links for this project return 403s - these can be found on 
https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/. An example is 
https://googlefontdirectory.googlecode.com/archive/default.zip. This could be a 
problem with Google Code in general; I'm not really sure.

Original comment by a...@datapad.io on 26 Nov 2013 at 8:39

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Original comment by pathum...@gmail.com on 5 Sep 2014 at 8:40

• Added labels: dl-error

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This can now be obtained from 
https://github.com/google/fonts/archive/master.zip 

Original comment by dcrossland@google.com on 6 Apr 2015 at 10:06

• Changed state: Done