[Openfontlibrary] looking for corefonts replacements, how to replace?, and site search

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Thu Apr 12 07:29:51 PDT 2007


Hi Jeremy!

Great to see a new name here! This project is still in a very early
stage, but welcome! :-)

On 12/04/07, Jeremy C. Reed <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:
> A few topics here:
>
> 1) The website search doesn't work for me. For example, the search can't
> find "libertine" but I see it listed in the wiki.

The wiki is not integrated with the ccHost system that runs the main
site. The list of existing free fonts on the wiki is a list for people
to import into the site, once the site is fully working - that is,
once it can tag fonts with the SIL Open Font License instead of
Creative Commons Public Domain. Most of the fonts will need their
authors to be contacted to relicense under OFL.

> 2) I am looking for replacements for Microsoft Corefonts which are
> TrueType fonts from Microsoft with WGL4 (Windows Glyph List 4) charset:

I'm not aware of anything like replacements for these fonts. While not
free software, you can get these from http://corefonts.sf.net and they
are freely redistributable, which IMO is the most important freedom in
free software.

> (I also found some replacements at
> http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/gavindi/ but don't know

Cool - didn't know about this project!

I just downloaded the .tgz file and there is a LICENSE file inside,
titled "Bitstream Vera Fonts Copyright".

Look at the files, it seems this is just Bitstream Vera with the
metrics changed to act as a drop-in replacement for Arial, Times and
Verdana. I'm suspect about the quality of this...

> 3) Does your wiki contain instructions on how to map replacements with
> fontconfig and maybe other applications? If not, can anyone share
> examples?

No, it doesn't contain this information. I've never tried this,
although I think its possible. Please post your solution on the list
when you arrive at it! :-)

-- 
Regards,
Dave


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