Hi, Thank you both for starting to clean up the awful mess that URW fonts had become over time. It had come to the point they were totally unusable by anything but a few apps that hardcoded them. They were tripping many many users (countless why *awful things* happen as soon as I try to use one of the urw fonts in my app, it's time proven right ?)
The next step of course is to replace Postscript fonts with Opentype CFF versions (.otf), since that's what most apps expect. The few apps that used to work with Postscript fonts are getting sick of them (LibreOffice is filtering legacy font formats now for example). Since OpenType .otf versions ship CFF outlines like Postscript there is no risk of breaking metric compatibility. Nitpick: Fedora packages are supposed to group fonts by family. As Microsoft noted in its WPF font model whitepaper, the CSS model and apps only know to manage weight, width or slant qualifiers. So anything which is a weight, width or slant qualifier is a font face name (in the same Fedora package), and anything else a different font family. Therefore urw-base35-nimbus-sans-fonts and urw-base35-nimbus-sans-narrow-fonts should be merged (narrow is a width qualifier). But even though splitting those what a mistake, over-spitting is much better for users than under-splitting! (the 4 faces only thing is actually another Postscript legacy limitation IIRC). Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
