[Debian-in-workers] Bug#478488: Bug#478488: Bug#478488: Remove Duplicate Rachana Font
Anivar Aravind
anivar at movingrepublic.org
Tue Apr 29 21:44:27 UTC 2008
2008/4/30 Davide Viti <zinosat at tiscali.it>:
> Hi,
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 04:57:54PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> > >On ttf-malayalam-fonts package there is a Duplication of Rachana Fonts.
> > >Rachana_w01.ttf is an Old version of Rachana_04.ttf
> > >So I request to remove the Old version. Also for Debian Installer Udeb
> > >Replace Rachana_w01 the Old version font with Rachana_04.ttf
> > >
> >
> > What problems in Rachana_w01 does Rachana_04 fix?
> >
> >
> > >Also 2 fonts in this package AnjaliOldLipi-0.730.ttf & MalOTF.ttf are
> > >not rendering well with Upstream pango, we swathanthra Malayalam
> > >Computing, the malayalam L10n team can provide patches for these fonts
> > >very soon
> >
> > Please provide them ASAP. As it is, it is probably too late to get these
> > changes into lenny but if we beg and plead we might be able to get a
> > special dispensation. It is important that we are fully ready on our end
> > before we approach the d-i/release teams.
>
> I've patched the package as to include Rachana_04.ttf (available in [1])
> and generated a screenshot [2] in a special chroot; you can compare it
> with a screenshot rendering the same piece of text but produced with
> Rachana_w01.ttf
> I suggest you compare [2] and [3] loading them in separate tabs and switching
> back and forth.
Great work Davide
It clearly helps to see the evolution of the font from 2005 to 2008.
The text using Rachana_04.ttf Looks fine . The other have a lot of
rendoring errors on Post base YA,RA, LA, VA forms
>
> [1] http://alioth.debian.org/~zinosat-guest/ttf-malayalam-fonts-udeb_0.5.3_all.udeb
> [2] http://alioth.debian.org/~zinosat-guest/ml_Rachana_04.png
> [3] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/gtk-frontend/screenshots/2.23-1_vs_2.24-2/common/ml.png
>
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