05-20-2007, 11:29 AM
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Liberation Fonts, replacement for Windows core fonts
https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/
You can get them there. Liberation fonts are a replacement for Windows core fonts.
The most important part: 
>Using these fonts does not subject your documents to the GPL--it liberates them from any proprietary claim.
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05-20-2007, 04:51 PM
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Thanks Oliver. Let's wait the end of the year when they add hints to the fonts 
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05-20-2007, 05:38 PM
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I'm using it already in browser. As far as I know you have to enable hinting first e.g. in Firefox - so it doesn't make a difference. Maybe for special graphical work.
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05-20-2007, 06:28 PM
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If Red Hat put their money where their mouth is, in the end of the year they'll release a new version of these fonts with hints. I hope they do. Then I'll do some test and if it works as expected, I'll add rules in the fontconfig XML files so that these fonts are hinted as default (like I did for the MS fonts). Let's see if they look better than DejaVu Sans Condensed, I hope
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05-20-2007, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Charles
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If Red Hat put their money where their mouth is, in the end of the year they'll release a new version of these fonts with hints. I hope they do. Then I'll do some test and if it works as expected, I'll add rules in the fontconfig XML files so that these fonts are hinted as default (like I did for the MS fonts). Let's see if they look better than DejaVu Sans Condensed, I hope
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What's wrong with DejaVu fonts?
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05-20-2007, 06:52 PM
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They're not hinted.
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05-20-2007, 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Charles
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They're not hinted.
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You mean not blurred?
According to this post- they are already hinted.
FreeFonts got hinting only at the end of last year.
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05-20-2007, 10:06 PM
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I'm on a development machine and I don't have fontconfig here. If you do, could you install FreeFont, turn on hinting, turn off antialiasing and send us a screenshot please? Last time I tried was a year ago. I'm surprised this hasn't created more hype in the news as this sound a great improvement. So far the only popular fonts that have been hinted are the few MS fonts. Hinting a font costs a huge amount of money and takes a long, long time, especially when the font has most languages of the world (Asian, middle-eastern, etc...).
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05-25-2007, 07:37 PM
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These hit the ports tree today
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05-25-2007, 10:09 PM
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Yes, at them moment there is a huge wave of ports 
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