The goose OpenType eggs holds...

[Vasile Gaburici]

I've got some expert comments on the fonts. There are some issues with
the conversion...

Details here: http://www.typophile.com/node/47578

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici at gmail.com> wrote:
> I suspect the person that did the work used his employers' (very)
> non-free software to do the job, and said person is probably at risk
> of getting fired if found out. But who says we cannot use the result
> if it is GPL'd. Furthermore, the modification dates of the files
> inside the archive indicates that this happened 5 years ago, so it may
> be really hard to trace who did it.
>
> Also, in my enthusiasm I omitted the fact that these fonts are based
> on the ghostscript 6.0 fonts, before Cyrillic glyphs were added. E.g.,
> Nimbus Roman Regular's PS Core is version 1.05, not 1.06. The Cyrillic
> glyphs need to be merged in.
>
> Probably the cleanest thing to do is redo the conversion starting with
> the current version of gs-fonts (8.11). We can use the "goose" version
> as model for what the result should look like (kerning, ligatures
> etc.) Any experts here that can help with that?
>
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Nicolas Mailhot
> <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
>> Le lundi 21 juillet 2008 à 00:48 +0300, Vasile Gaburici a écrit :
>>> I've found CFF OpenType versions of the ghostscript URW fonts. AFAICT,
>>> they are well done: have kerning pairs (using the correct 'kern'
>>> feature for CFF files), has ligatures etc. They also fix the missing
>>> mappings for Romanian (no locl table yet...). The only troublesome
>>> point may that the author of the conversion seems to want to remain
>>> anonymous. The license of the fonts is still GPL.
>>
>> You need to trace this version to its ultimate source, talk with
>> fedora-legal (or spot) and convince the current package maintainer to
>> switch font sources
>>
>> --
>> Nicolas Mailhot
>>
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