[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 11494] Italic is mislabeled as oblique
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Wed Jul 18 05:01:16 PDT 2007
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11494
------- Comment #7 from giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl 2007-07-18 05:00 PST -------
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Here is what Adept has to say about ttf-dejavu:
> >
> > Bitstream Vera fonts with additional characters
> > These fonts are based on the famous Bitstream Vera font family adding better
> > support for non-English languages. They currently cover the entire Latin Ext-A
> > range and parts of Latin Ext-B, Cyrillic, Greek and other ranges.
> > They are designed for use on low-resolution devices (mainly computer screens)
> > but can be used in printing as well.
> >
> Sure, Vera is from Bitstream. But DejaVu isn't, and it shouldn't have that tag
> there. And according to the license, we cannot use the Bitstream name. So
> that's why I'm wondering where that tag was added to that line (is it in our
> fonts, or was it added by a packager, or by you?)
It seems it was fixed in version 1.6. I have no idea why it did not make it
into Ubuntu though. The Ubuntu installer still describes these fonts as coming
from Biststream.
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