[Bug 477471] [tuxpaint] Please convert to new font packaging guidelines

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Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>  2009-02-22 13:09:06 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> Wow - this seems to be a rather large can of worms.

Yes, we sort of pay our previous laxity. Lots of fonts that should have been
packaged long ago (of course it'd be better if the app just used fontconfig as
some of those have been replaced by better default since; this lists reads like
Debian defaults a few years ago)

> ar.ttf is a font named ae_Nice from arabeyes.org - it doesn't seem to be
> packaged for fedora at the moment

Arabeyes is not packaged, and the OLPC people want it too
There are two open reviews but they're stalled and the original packager has
not given any sign of life for a long time (bug #462711 and bug #461139)

> bo.ttf is a font named Tsampa Keyboard - not packaged as far as I can see -
> seems to be tibetan

LGPL font from http://tsampa.org/tibetan/software/tsamkey/
Could be packaged

> el.ttf is a font named Thryomanes - not packaged as far as I can see

It's in the wishlist
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Thryomanes_fonts

But it's not considered as good as the GFS fonts for example nowadays

> he.ttf - Nachlieli-Light - The font is available in fedora in
> culmus-nachlieli-clm-fonts but that is not a ttf-font but a type1-font. I am
> not sure if tuxpaint would work with that.

Try it?
Otherwise if the culmus project could just provide TTF or OTF versions of its
fonts, we'd certainly prefer them over type1

> hi.ttf - Raghindi - not sure about this one - Raghindi seems to be a font
> family and not a specific font? Any locals?

http://www.yudit.org/download/fonts/raghu.txt

Not modifiable, can not be packaged

> ka.ttf - TuxPaintGeorgian (c) Gia Shervashidze - most certainly not packaged

Good luck finding which one of its fonts it is, this guy created a lot of them
http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/georgia.html they're all over the net usually
without any clear licensing.

It would probably be best to try to contact the author and ask him to publish
some fonts in a canonical place with all the legalities taken care of.

http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/2008/11/07/gia-shervashidze-our-gerogian-localizer/

Otherwise spot packaged bpg fonts recently in bug#483865 , and DejaVu Sans has
Georgian support IIRC

> ta.ttf - TSCu_Comic - not packaged but serafettin-cartoons-fonts is packaged
> and has "It is based on Thukkaram Gopalrao's TSCu_Comic of tamillinux project"
> in it's description. That one might be sufficient.

Right

> te.ttf - Vemana2000 - not packaged

Being packaged in bug #481009 (waiting on packager action, probably not stalled
yet)

> zh_tw.ttf - Traditional Chinese SubsetForTuxPaint - Tuxpaint ships ships a
> script called maketuxfont.py for this font.

Probably better to replace with whatever font is preferred for chinese nowadays
(ask juhp)

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