Re: Anyone interested in packaging Google Noto fonts?

On 4 April 2013 23:26, Denis Jacquerye <moyogo(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Great!
>
>  Noto and Droid do not have the same outlines for Latin/Greek/Cyrillic.
>  Noto Sans is a little bit wider but not as wide as Open Sans if I
>  recall correctly.
>  If documents are set with Droid it would be nice to have the fonts
>  still available in the future in some way or another.
>  
Sure will take care for that.

Regards,
Pravin Satpute


>  Cheers,
>  Denis Moyogo Jacquerye
>
>  On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad(a)behdad.org&gt; wrote:
>  > Hi Pravin,
>  >
>  > Noto replaces Droid moving forward, and has far wider coverage and better
>  > hints, and will get new scripts added over time.  So perhaps initially
>  have
>  > both, then have Noto obsolete Droid, and add fontconfig rules to that
>  effect...
>  >
>  > behdad
>  >
>  > On 13-04-04 05:09 AM, pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com wrote:
>  >> Hi Behdad,
>  >>
>  >>    While further checking Noto fonts, i found that these fonts are same
>  as
>  >> already packaged google-droid-sans-fonts. I have tested following
>  script fonts.
>  >>
>  >> 1. Devanagari: Outline is same in Noto and Droid
>  >> 2. Tamil : Outline is same in Noto and Droid
>  >> 3. Armenian:  Outline is same in Noto and Droid
>  >>
>  >>    Droid looks bit older version 1.02 and Noto is latest version 1.03.
>  Noto
>  >> has hinting information while Droid is unhinted.
>  >>
>  >>    Considering this, i think we can either keep Droid or Noto in
>  fedora. Noto
>  >> has more preference since its latest version.
>  >>
>  >>    If you know difference please update me with it.
>  >>
>  >> Regards,
>  >> Pravin Satpute
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> On 3 April 2013 10:07, pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com <mailto:
>  pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  >> <pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>  >>
>  >>     I will package this for Fedora.
>  >>
>  >>     Regards,
>  >>     Pravin Satpute
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>     On 30 March 2013 10:37, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad(a)behdad.org
>  >>     <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>  >>
>  >>         https://code.google.com/p/noto/
>  >>
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