Re: [XeTeX] font license

2014-09-06 Thread Douglas McKenna
Lorna Evans wrote, about trying to get at the license information in the Nikosh Bengali font - > ...it quits at this point. FWIW, it appears (I'm not entirely sure, but someone may be able to confirm) there's something wonky/corrupt in the Nikosh font, see

Re: [XeTeX] font license

2014-09-04 Thread maxwell
On 2014-09-03 17:44, Jonathan Kew wrote: Sounds like it'd be worth filing a bug report on this, as it certainly looks like incorrect behavior. Perhaps Jiang or Khaled would have time to track down exactly what's happening here. Thanks, I've done this (Khaled of course already knows about the p

Re: [XeTeX] font license

2014-09-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 01:58:14PM +0900, Akira Kakuto wrote: > > I'd expect it to be looking at the fsType field in the OS/2 table: > > I have found by otfinfo that > http://www.bpdb.gov.bd/bpdb/images/fonthelp/Nikosh.zip > has > fsType = 0x0100 (No subsetting). I'm yet to check the code, but wh

[XeTeX] font license

2014-09-03 Thread Akira Kakuto
I'd expect it to be looking at the fsType field in the OS/2 table: I have found by otfinfo that http://www.bpdb.gov.bd/bpdb/images/fonthelp/Nikosh.zip has fsType = 0x0100 (No subsetting). Best, Akira -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List informa

Re: [XeTeX] font license

2014-09-03 Thread Jonathan Kew
Why would xdvipdfmx think the Nikosh font is not embeddable, when it's ok with the Scheherazade? Is it looking at some other field? I don't think it's reading the entire license agreement :-). Indeed. :) I'd expect it to be looking at the fsType field in the OS/2 table: http://www.micros

Re: [XeTeX] font license

2014-09-03 Thread maxwell
On 2014-09-03 17:25, Stefan Solbrig wrote: 2014-09-03 22:46 GMT+02:00 Lorna Evans : It came from the Nikosh.ttf file. I have Microsoft Font Properties Extension installed and with that installed I can right click on a .ttf and select "Properties" and it gives me a whole range of tabs full of

Re: [XeTeX] font license

2014-09-03 Thread maxwell
On 2014-09-03 17:04, Zdenek Wagner wrote: 2014-09-03 22:46 GMT+02:00 Lorna Evans : ...I don't know how you would find this info on other Operating Systems. Maybe fontforge? I have it open in FontForge now. I would think the appropriate place to look would be the Element | Font info command

Re: [XeTeX] font license

2014-09-03 Thread Stefan Solbrig
2014-09-03 22:46 GMT+02:00 Lorna Evans : It came from the Nikosh.ttf file. I have Microsoft Font Properties Extension installed and with that installed I can right click on a .ttf and select "Properties" and it gives me a whole range of tabs full of info that were not available without the e

Re: [XeTeX] font license

2014-09-03 Thread maxwell
On 2014-09-03 16:46, Lorna Evans wrote: It came from the Nikosh.ttf file. I have Microsoft Font Properties Extension installed and with that installed I can right click on a .ttf and select "Properties" and it gives me a whole range of tabs full of info that were not available without the extensi

Re: [XeTeX] font license

2014-09-03 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2014-09-03 22:46 GMT+02:00 Lorna Evans : > It came from the Nikosh.ttf file. I have Microsoft Font Properties Extension > installed and with that installed I can right click on a .ttf and select > "Properties" and it gives me a whole range of tabs full of info that were > not available without the

Re: [XeTeX] font license

2014-09-03 Thread Lorna Evans
It came from the Nikosh.ttf file. I have Microsoft Font Properties Extension installed and with that installed I can right click on a .ttf and select "Properties" and it gives me a whole range of tabs full of info that were not available without the extension. I don't know how you would find this i

Re: [XeTeX] font license

2014-09-03 Thread maxwell
On 2014-09-03 15:42, Lorna Evans wrote: The font properties say "Installable embedding allowed" so I'm not sure why it won't embed. The license field has a bunch of CJK that I can't read and then this: Nikosh font developed by The Election Commission of Bangladesh. Latin glyphs ... That's ce

Re: [XeTeX] font license

2014-09-03 Thread Lorna Evans
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[XeTeX] font license

2014-09-03 Thread maxwell
On to the next problem. We're typesetting a Bangla grammar, and the chosen font for the Bengali script is the Nikosh font. This ttf font was reportedly developed by the government of Bangladesh, and is freely downloadable from their website, e.g. http://www.bpdb.gov.bd/bpdb/index.php?optio