Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 126655
New fonts-arabic version
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:45 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: KACST has released a new version of fonts-arabic You can download it, or the SRPM from http://resala.linux-egypt.org/packages/fonts-arabic/ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fonts-arabic-1.6.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install the RPMS 2. 3. Actual Results: Better looking Arabic fonts. Expected Results: Better looking Arabic fonts. Additional info: Better if it is added to the new releases, or as an update.
Owe .. Plus the updates for the KCAST fonts, can you please have a look at the following fonts and see if it can be added: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=34866&package_id=75554 At least we need to look at : ae_fonts1_ttf_1.1.tar.bz2 Can you please have a look on these fonts ?
The question I've been asking everybody who wants to add new fonts for a language are found at: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2003-August/msg00154.html I'm rather concerned about the fact that the Kacst font package has a huge number of fonts, most of which don't render particularly well. Adding more fonts I think puts more urgency on answering the question of "what Arabic fonts should we have in the distribution". Every font we ship should serve a definite purpose; duplication isn't useful for the user.
Yes, I have realized that the latest KACST fonts are not rendering properly, even the same fonts that used to render good in the past, are not rendering well now !! We can still stick to the current fonts-arabic in RedHat (KACST 1.5.2)