[OpenFontLibrary] [Open Font Library] Upload Flagged

[Ed Trager]

Hi, Jon,

If you know the right people (preferably those who control purse
strings ;-) ) at Wikimedia, please keep plugging OFLB and see if we
can get some $ from Wikimedia foundation to get OFLB done properly.

For example, even for OFLB to handle @font-face properly is going to
require some fairly sophisticated Javascript detection on whether a
browser provides @font-face support or not.  It's going to take
person-hours to write that.

And even before we talk about the @font-face features in OFLB, we need
to get the basic font uploading and screening/ analysis (via fontaine)
done : that also will require person-hours.

Best - Ed

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> 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
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