FontForge Icons

Hi,

Thought I'd forward this on 

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From: George Williams <gww@...>
Date: 2008/6/16
Subject: [Fontforge-devel] Icons for menus
To: fontforge-devel@...

Some of you may have noticed that the cvs tree contains little icons in
the menus.

I'm not the greatest icon designer.

If anyone would like to redo them so they are nicer that would be great.
There is one unexpected caveat: FontForge doesn't handle alpha channels,
so all icons should be indexed images with a transparent color. (This
corresponds to an alpha channel which is either all on or all off inside
gimp).

Re: FontForge Icons

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 11:33 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
> George Williams <gww@...>
[...]
> FontForge doesn't handle alpha channels,
> so all icons should be indexed images with a transparent color.

Or someone could write a patch to fix this limitation....
(just pointing out alternatives here...)

Liam

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Re: FontForge Icons

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 08:32, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 11:33 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
> > George Williams <gww@...>
> [...]
> > FontForge doesn't handle alpha channels,
> > so all icons should be indexed images with a transparent color.
> 
> Or someone could write a patch to fix this limitation....
> (just pointing out alternatives here...)
I am well aware of the alternative. The amount of work is quite large.
Feel free to take it on.

Re: FontForge Icons

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 15:17 -0700, George Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 08:32, Liam R E Quin wrote:
[...]
> > Or someone could write a patch to fix this limitation....
> > (just pointing out alternatives here...)
> I am well aware of the alternative. The amount of work is quite large.
> Feel free to take it on.

George, I didn't mean to sound critical and I'm sorry if my comment
appeared that way.  The work to design icons can be large too,
but is likely to be done by different people.

Best,

Liam

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Heuristica font

Draft of Heuristica fonts is available at ftp://ftp.dvo.ru/pub/Font/heuristica . 
It is based on the Adobe Utopia font with Cyrillic added (currently only to 
Regular typeface). The font is distributed under the terms of OFL 1.1.

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Uploading fonts to OFLib

When I attempt to upload a font I can only figure out how to get a single file
into the package. But I notice that other people seem to manage to get multiple
files.

For instance the Promocyja Download contains three things.

How is this done? The File field of the
http://openfontlibrary.org/media/submit/font upload page only accepts a single
file. Is there a way to add files to a package after it has been created?

Re: Heuristica font

This is very cool sir! Thanks for releasing!

Jon

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 15:19 +1100, Andrey V. Panov wrote:
> Draft of Heuristica fonts is available at ftp://ftp.dvo.ru/pub/Font/heuristica . 
> It is based on the Adobe Utopia font with Cyrillic added (currently only to 
> Regular typeface). The font is distributed under the terms of OFL 1.1.
> 
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Re: Uploading fonts to OFLib

I believe it is done after the fact once a file is uploaded. Figured out
now?

Jon

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 21:30 -0700, gww <at> silcom.com wrote:
> When I attempt to upload a font I can only figure out how to get a single file
> into the package. But I notice that other people seem to manage to get multiple
> files.
> 
> For instance the Promocyja Download contains three things.
> 
> How is this done? The File field of the
> http://openfontlibrary.org/media/submit/font upload page only accepts a single
> file. Is there a way to add files to a package after it has been created?
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Re: Hi from argentina

>> Hola Juan,
>>
>> Looking forward to your articles on free software and typography :)
>> Let us know where and when you publish them.
> 
> coming soon, I only propose to spread some topics like
> free font licensing, free software for designrs, free font movement,
> There is not much (spanish) information about that on internet

Seems like your site is now available 

For those who haven't come across it yet it's:
http://www.disenolibre.org/

Muchas gracias for your efforts in providing this excellent resource
around libre design to the spanish-speaking community 

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>> Hola Juan,
>>
>> Looking forward to your articles on free software and typography :)

Re: Hi from argentina

El Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:21:31 +0200
Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas_spalinger <at> sil.org> escribió:

> >> Hola Juan,
> >>
> >> Looking forward to your articles on free software and typography :)
> >> Let us know where and when you publish them.
> > 
> > coming soon, I only propose to spread some topics like
> > free font licensing, free software for designrs, free font movement,
> > There is not much (spanish) information about that on internet
> 
> 
> Seems like your site is now available 
> 
> For those who haven't come across it yet it's:
> http://www.disenolibre.org/
> 
> Muchas gracias for your efforts in providing this excellent resource
> around libre design to the spanish-speaking community 
> 
> Bye,
> 

yes! the site is now available, thanks!!!! :)
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