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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 40465] New: - Obtain some OpenType fonts for testing

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           Summary: Obtain some OpenType fonts for testing
           Product: Fop
           Version: 1.0dev
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: fonts
        AssignedTo: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org
        ReportedBy: bdelacretaz@codeconsult.ch


Try to get a few OpenType reference fonts that can be distributed with FOP for
testing and demonstration. Ask some font editors. 

The fonts could be crippled if they want, for example by removing portions of
the glyph sets.

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------- Additional Comments From max@berger.name  2006-09-11 15:42 -------
Unfortunetely the fonts I've just mentioned are GPL, but maybe we can ask the freefont people to provide 
downloadable OTF versions?

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------- Additional Comments From jeremias@apache.org  2007-07-22 00:33 -------
FYI, Harmony got a green light for using the DejaVu fonts:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200707.mbox/%3cc3755b3a0707170028n648b5f8clce80ca0be58dd854@mail.gmail.com%3e

Means, we can use them, too.

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bdelacretaz@codeconsult.ch changed:

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------- Additional Comments From max@berger.name  2007-12-07 05:41 -------
Stixfonts are now available:

www.stixfonts.org

according to their page the license is liberal enough to be included with OSS
projects, but it may be a good idea to check with apache legal.


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------- Additional Comments From max@berger.name  2006-09-11 15:39 -------
Free fonts can be found at:
http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/

Unfortunately they are not for immediate download in otf format, but can be converted using:
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/

hth

Max

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------- Additional Comments From max@berger.name  2007-07-24 07:42 -------
Just because I am really happy about this fact, I've downloaded the dejavu
sources and converted them to otf. The results are available at:

http://max.berger.name/tmp/dejavu-otf-2.18.zip

(7.7MB, for a limited time)

Steps to reproduce:
- download recent fontforge
- download dejavu sfd sources
- modify generate.pe to produce .otf instead of .ttf
- run generate.sh, ingore error in postprocess script
- results are in generated/

To test all OTF features, the generation may have to be run with different
parameters, which would require more modification to the .pe file. I am not sure
which features are present in these files.

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------- Additional Comments From bdelacretaz@codeconsult.ch  2006-09-28 06:42 -------
I've emailed the following companies to ask for a possible donation of some
fonts for testing purposes:

  http://www.underware.nl/ - info (at) underware.nl
  http://www.emigre.com - info (at) emigre.com

Let's hope these info@ addresses go somewhere else than the spamcan...

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------- Additional Comments From bdelacretaz@codeconsult.ch  2006-10-10 04:45 -------
Both companies from comment #3 have replied negatively. 

One of them suggested trying the OpenType mailing list, either
http://topica.com/lists/opentype/read or opentype-list@indx.co.uk .

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------- Additional Comments From max@berger.name  2007-07-10 02:02 -------
The  DejaVu Fonts have a very liberal license which may be compatible with the ASL:

http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

The are also available for download in SFD (FontForge) format, which can be used to create OpenType 
fonts.

Also, the Stixfonts (bug #40468) are now scheduled for a beta release for the end of this month.  Be 
warned though, that previous promised dates have always been pushed back.

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