[OpenFontLibrary] [Open Font Library] Upload Flagged

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Wed Mar 4 12:57:42 PST 2009


Awesome!!! I really think connecting in with this @font-face is going
to be great. I was chatting with Brion Vibber from Wikimedia
Foundation and others about how awesome OFLB is going to be for the
web once more browsers and sites start using font-face...

Its got me all pumped up!

Jon

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/4 Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas_spalinger at sil.org>:
>> if there are problems upstream of
>>  pxfonts itself, then it's another story...
>
> Right.
>
> Well, I've just opened "p52003l.pfb" from the Ubuntu gsfonts package,
> and Asana from the OFLB, and the pxfonts at
> http://www.ctan.org/get/fonts/pxfonts.zip from
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/pxfonts/
>
> That pxfonts zip contains a few dozen small font files, with a lot of
> maths related glyphs, and none of the standard roman glyphs "abcde..."
>
> The URW Palladio has all the roman glyphs and none of the fancy maths ones.
>
> Asana has both, but there are often some subtle differences from URW
> and Asana, and sometimes not...
>
> http://dave.lab6.com/acid/dump/2009/urw_asana_1.png
> http://dave.lab6.com/acid/dump/2009/urw_asana_1_zoom.png
> http://dave.lab6.com/acid/dump/2009/urw_asana_a.png
> http://dave.lab6.com/acid/dump/2009/urw_px_asana_copyright-handles.png
> http://dave.lab6.com/acid/dump/2009/urw_px_asana_copyright.png
> http://dave.lab6.com/acid/dump/2009/urw_px_asana_dollars.png
>
> --
> Regards,
> Dave
>



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Jon Phillips
http://rejon.org/


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