[Openfontlibrary] Re: OpenFontLibrary Previwer

[Jon Phillips]

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 21:37 -0300, Aurélio A. Heckert wrote:
> On 11/8/06, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> > Aurelio, you are so cool! Thanks so much for this lovely commandline
> > hack for getting text. I'm cc'ing the list so comments can be made...
> 
> Thanks! I did some thing better now. :-)

Awesome, please post these emails to the Open Font Library list...more
people will help and see then...I've been on hiatus moving...so slow to
reply. This is super cool!

Jon

> > On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 19:09 -0300, Aurélio A. Heckert wrote:
> > > Hi Jon and Ryan,
> > >
> > > Now I found this:
> > > http://openfontlibrary.org/?ccm=/media/files/zeimusu/15
> > >
> > > I don't know the openfontlibrary.org existis! :-)
> >
> > Cool! Please contribute a patch against ccHost or our current
> > tools/code, and I'll get you an account on either or both projects (as
> > they are both separate projects).
> 
> Jon, where is the tools/code URL?
> I found this: http://openclipart.org/tools/  Right?
> 
> > At that point, you should send me your ssh2 (dsa, etc) and gpg keys,
> > real name, desired username and email so I can get you access to our
> > code and server on freedesktop.org
> 
> Right!
> 
> > Cool?
> 
> Cool!!!
> 
> So... I don't know how to do and use ssh2 (dsa, etc) and gpg keys...
> Can you help me?
> 
> > > We can do an TTF previwer for web with ImageMagick too! :-)
> > > http://imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#font
> > > (...)
> >
> > Awesome, I wonder if you could figure out a good way with php to make
> > font previews...something I could hook into php-based ccHost.
> 
> I need to understand the ccHost before... :-/
> But i did somethig cool. :-)
> 
> See the attached generate-ttf-thumbnails.pl file.
> Is based on a code that i found on your code directory.
> You know who create the generate-thumbnails.pl?
> I put the based cod under the GPL...
> I need him acept.
> 
> I'm sending 2 generated images to you.
> 
> > We need both quick generic previews, and also previews where a user can
> > type in text and get back a sample to see what a font looks like (kinda
> > like a service)...
> 
> Yes! It can be vary easy! I will do soon.
> 
> > > Até Mais!
> > >  Aurium
> > (...)
> > Jon
> >
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