[Pkg-fonts-devel] New release: GNU FreeFont

[Davide Viti]

hi Steve,

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:15:47AM +0100, Steve White wrote:
> Davide & al,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Davide Viti <zinosat at tiscali.it> wrote:
> >  Christian has uploaded to the Debian archive the new version of ttf-freefont based on your
> >  release!
> >
> Very cool.

unfortunately it turns out that current version of fontforge available in Debian
can't deal with the sfd format used in freefont (see [1]) making the ttf files
completely unusable. Do you know which version of fontforge should be used at least?



> >
> >  [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=472566
> >
> It's fixed in CVS and will appear in the next release.

excellent

regards,
Davide

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=472830
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