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

[Steve White]

Hi,

I don't know "waterfall", and I have to go to work right now, but...

My first guess would be:  you're using an old copy of FontForge.

In the release notes for FreeFont:

       Updated file format to Spline Font Database (SFD) 2
       (so now we can use recent versions of FontForge)

       The recent versions of FontForge are much superior to those of a
       couple of years ago.  Besides being much more stable, they now
       do quite thorough checking for font problems.  Thanks to George!

The SFD files I uploaded look fine with FontForge from CVS 14-Feb-2008.

Cheers!

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Davide Viti <zinosat at tiscali.it> wrote:
> 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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