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

[Steve White]

Davide,

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Davide Viti <zinosat at tiscali.it> wrote:
>
>  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?
>
I'm sorry, this doesn't make sense.

How does FontForge being able to read the ttf files reflect on their usablility?
The ttf files are for installation in operating systems, and have been
tested on several.

I'm not sure when FontForge made its big change.

I have been using one from CVS of 20080215.

I can say, this CVS version of FontForge is vastly superior in terms
of stability and features from the one that was in my Ubuntu Gutsy
distribution.  I would go so far as to say, its crashing bugs make
that version of FontForge borderline useless.

Gotta go!  Later!