Re: OFLB 0.5 Goals

It would be great to have your help. More coming soon. Are you on the
launchpad for the site?

http://launchpad.net/openfontlibrary

Jon

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@...> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:07:52PM -0700, Dave Crossland wrote:
>> 2. Ellen is a web user in Spain who wants to translate 100% of the
>> Open Font Library into Spanish. She visits the site and sees a clear
>> invitation to start contribution translations. She is taken to a
>> guidebook page that explains the process, and she follows the
>> instructions. In the 0.6 release 100% of the site is translated into
>> Spanish thanks to Ellen, and she is clearly credited on the site and
>> in the Press Release/Announcement information.
>
> I'd be interested in testing this, specially for right to left support,
> in case you want any testers.
>
> Regards,
>  Khaled

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CVT editing

Hi!

In FontForge it is suggested to me to remove 'cvt' listing for my Font VEGESIGNES because of existing
'legacy' instructions. Should I erase this?

It is also mentioned of a 'prep' instruction.

It seems that it cannot work well.

Some ideas about what to do next?

Mac OS Lion X11 

Frandey Lavie Hypère Chabom⊥
chabon.laval731@...

Re: CVT editing

My suggestion is to forget about Fontforge's auto-instruct and all
other tools and get hold of ttfautohint, here:

http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/

It is awesome.

Peter

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Laval Chabon
<chabon.laval731@...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> In FontForge it is suggested to me to remove 'cvt' listing for my Font VEGESIGNES because of existing
'legacy' instructions. Should I erase this?
>
> It is also mentioned of a 'prep' instruction.
>
> It seems that it cannot work well.
>
> Some ideas about what to do next?
>
> Mac OS Lion X11
>
> Frandey Lavie Hypère Chabom⊥
> chabon.laval731@...
>
>
>
>

Re: CVT editing/Peter Baker

Excuse-me but I don't know how to process with the terminal screen. I'm not a very fine geek.

I opened the exec file. Reading the process even don't tell me how to do.

Perhaps because I'm French Canadian... sorry. Would you help me?

Frandey Lavie Hypère Chabom⊥
chabon.laval731@...

Le 2012-05-01 à 17:43, Peter Baker a écrit :

> My suggestion is to forget about Fontforge's auto-instruct and all
> other tools and get hold of ttfautohint, here:
> 
> http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/
> 
> It is awesome.
> 
> Peter
> 
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Laval Chabon
<chabon.laval731@...> wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> In FontForge it is suggested to me to remove 'cvt' listing for my Font VEGESIGNES because of existing
'legacy' instructions. Should I erase this?
>> 
>> It is also mentioned of a 'prep' instruction.
>> 
>> It seems that it cannot work well.

Re: CVT editing/Peter Baker

Much better documentation should be launched in a few weeks :)

On 1 May 2012 18:21, Laval Chabon <chabon.laval731@...> wrote:
> Excuse-me but I don't know how to process with the terminal screen. I'm not a very fine geek.
>
> I opened the exec file. Reading the process even don't tell me how to do.
>
> Perhaps because I'm French Canadian... sorry. Would you help me?
>
>
> Frandey Lavie Hypère Chabom⊥
> chabon.laval731@...
>
>
> Le 2012-05-01 à 17:43, Peter Baker a écrit :
>
>> My suggestion is to forget about Fontforge's auto-instruct and all
>> other tools and get hold of ttfautohint, here:
>>
>> http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/
>>
>> It is awesome.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Laval Chabon
<chabon.laval731@...> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> In FontForge it is suggested to me to remove 'cvt' listing for my Font VEGESIGNES because of existing

Re: CVT editing/Peter Baker/Dave Crossland

Ok, I just have to be patient.

Frandey Lavie Hypère Chabom⊥
chabon.laval731@...

Le 2012-05-01 à 21:56, Dave Crossland a écrit :

> Much better documentation should be launched in a few weeks :)
> 
> On 1 May 2012 18:21, Laval Chabon <chabon.laval731@...> wrote:
>> Excuse-me but I don't know how to process with the terminal screen. I'm not a very fine geek.
>> 
>> I opened the exec file. Reading the process even don't tell me how to do.
>> 
>> Perhaps because I'm French Canadian... sorry. Would you help me?
>> 
>> 
>> Frandey Lavie Hypère Chabom⊥
>> chabon.laval731@...
>> 
>> 
>> Le 2012-05-01 à 17:43, Peter Baker a écrit :
>> 
>>> My suggestion is to forget about Fontforge's auto-instruct and all
>>> other tools and get hold of ttfautohint, here:
>>> 
>>> http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/
>>> 
>>> It is awesome.
>>> 

Re: OFLB 0.5 Goals

I've a launchpad account, khaledhosny.

Regards,
 Khaled

On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 04:03:19PM +0800, Jon Phillips wrote:
> It would be great to have your help. More coming soon. Are you on the
> launchpad for the site?
> 
> http://launchpad.net/openfontlibrary
> 
> Jon
> 
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@...> wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:07:52PM -0700, Dave Crossland wrote:
> >> 2. Ellen is a web user in Spain who wants to translate 100% of the
> >> Open Font Library into Spanish. She visits the site and sees a clear
> >> invitation to start contribution translations. She is taken to a
> >> guidebook page that explains the process, and she follows the
> >> instructions. In the 0.6 release 100% of the site is translated into
> >> Spanish thanks to Ellen, and she is clearly credited on the site and
> >> in the Press Release/Announcement information.
> >
> > I'd be interested in testing this, specially for right to left support,
> > in case you want any testers.
> >
> > Regards,
> >  Khaled
> 
> 

Next milestone for the Open Font Library

Re: Next milestone for the Open Font Library

This is great! I look forward to this next burst of activity towards 0.5

Cheerz!

Jon

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Christopher Adams
<christopher@...> wrote:
> Hi team,
>
> We are gearing up for another software sprint on the Open Font Library.
> We've been seeing some interesting uploads recently, and we want to make it
> even easier for people to contribute to and learn about the site.
>
> Our broad goals for the next release are to:
>
> 1) increase user participation and retention in the site
> 2) improve communication between members and developers, and among all users
> 3) open up access to the translation tool and promote translation of the
> site
>
> A lot of the focus on this release will be on the Guidebook
> (http://openfontlibrary.org/guidebook) and our new Translation Tool which is
> ready to be used, and which will allow us to make the Open Font Library
> available in multiple langauges.
>
> We have a lot of issues currently on our tracker:
> https://launchpad.net/openfontlibrary/+milestone/0.5
>
> However, for this first iteration will mainly be focusing on bugs and
> blueprints related to the three goals I mentioned above. We will definitely
> like your help in getting more designers, font users and translators to use
> the site!
>
> Finally, here are some recent stats for the Open Font Library!
>
> New users this month: 67
> Total Contributors: 60
>
> New fonts this month: 12
> Total font families: 136
>
> Best,
> Christopher
>
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Some question on adding fonts

Hi all,

I tried to add my first OFLB font[1] today, and I have some
questions/remarks.

I provide special web version of my fonts that is a bit optimised to
have smaller file size than the regular version (my omitting stuff not
needed on the web like glyph names etc.), following the open font
sources template[2] I put them under web subdirectory, but OFLB seems to
to have any special handling of this and reads both web and non web
files duplicating every style in the font. Now, to work around this I
uploaded a new ZIP with only the web version, but I don't want to people
to be using that on desktop apps (it will result in poorly copyable
PDF's for example). It seems I'm the only one using the, what I thought,
recommended layout. I also provide WOFF and EOT files, but they are
ignored (the generated CSS is using the TTF files only).

Another issue is that the Character Map listing is near useless, it is
only showing Latin letters and few punctuation marks, not very useful
for a mainly Arabic font.

Also the preview text is truncated from above an below because of the
forced small line height, if I revert to default line height in Firefox
(using the built in inspector) no truncation happens.

I don't also seem to find a way to provide a link to upstream font
website.

All in all, I think the font should be removed from OFLB for now (or at
least hide it) because it will be giving users bad experience, but there
seem not to be a way to do this.

Regards,
 Khaled

[1] http://openfontlibrary.org/font/amiri
[2] http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-fonts/foo-open-font-sources/#_foo-open-font-sources_