Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 444392
make liberation-fonts build from source files
Last modified: 2010-08-26 20:43:08 EDT
Description of problem: Convert liberation-fonts into a open source font project, by means of migration from TTF to SFD format, rework on the RPM package, host publicly on fedorahosted.org, etc. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): liberation-fonts-1.03-1 How reproducible: N/A Steps to Reproduce: N/A Actual results: N/A Expected results: N/A Additional info: https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/
Created attachment 304298 [details] Temporary progress of new source tarball. * Wed May 01 2008 Caius Chance <cchance@redhat.com> - Converted previous TTF files into SFD files to be open source. - Created fontforge SFD -> TTF scripts. - Created Makefile. - Added documentations: AUTHORS, ChangeLog, README. - Repacked source tarball. - Released version 1.04.
Created attachment 304705 [details] Pangrams as Test Case.
Procedures: 1. Screenshots of pangrams in test case odt using all font faces (ver. 1.03). 2. Screenshots of pangrams in test case odt using all font faces (ver. 1.04). 3. Put together by photo editing software. 4. Compare the differences. Preconditions: - Anti aliasing is off. - Hinting is off. - dpi = 96. - resolution = 1280 x 1024. Software used: - Fedora Rawhide 20080507. - Latest GIMP. - Latest oowriter.
Created attachment 304707 [details] Pangrams as Test Case. Updated test case.
Created attachment 304711 [details] Sans test result. Red color are the 1.04 glyphs. Black color are the 1.03 glyphs. If there are glyphs of black colors behind red colors which means their location has differences.
Created attachment 304712 [details] Serif test result.
Created attachment 304713 [details] Mono test result.
Created attachment 304719 [details] PSD (photoshop/gimp format) to testing Sans. Toggling visibility of layers will help finding out the differences.
Created attachment 304720 [details] Sans test result. Motion-blur-like glyphs are the ones having problems.
Created attachment 304721 [details] PSD (photoshop/gimp format) to testing Serif.
Created attachment 304722 [details] Serif test result.
Created attachment 304723 [details] PSD (photoshop/gimp format) to testing Mono.
Created attachment 304724 [details] Mono test result.
The issue about Romanian incorrectly-generated characters (cedilla-below instead of comma-below) was recently corrected in bug #13277 at freedesktop.org. Please see comments #82 and #83, with the appropriate patch: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13277 Would you please include this correction in Red Hat/Fedora ASAP, since it affects *thousands* of documents and webpages generated in Romanian language ? Thanks a lot, Răzvan
Hi Răzvan, We are still in the progress of hosting the font correctly on fedorahosted.org. There were some work needed to be done to ensure the current SFD sources with minimal differences from the original TTF files that last delivered by the manufacturer. Once the hosting process is done, we could start all the patching process. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
The fonts is hosted on fedorahosted.org: https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/ The latest release of the fonts is available at: https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/browser/dist/liberation-fonts-1.04.beta.tar.gz?format=raw
Created attachment 308185 [details] Latest pangrams as test case.
*** Bug 627784 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***