Greetings.
In the past we have been reluctant to update fontforge in stable releases. The reason for this is that an update could cause a font to no longer build for some reason and then we would have no way to provide updates to that font. ;(
However, there seem to be some issues with the current F10 fontforge, so I would like to open discussion on updating there.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462038 for some discussion of this.
We could likely add libspiro, pango/cairo support in an update if we wanted to as well.
Anyone have any thoughts about doing this update in F10?
Thanks,
kevin
On list this time....
2009/3/4 Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com:
Anyone have any thoughts about doing this update in F10?
+1
If a font can no longer be built for some reason then we should contact the FF devs :)
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
On list this time....
2009/3/4 Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com:
Anyone have any thoughts about doing this update in F10?
+1
If a font can no longer be built for some reason then we should contact the FF devs :)
Unfortunately they are not very responsive. I had to remove one glyph from serafettin to make it build with the latest FF. I don't know the reason why I had to remove the glyph. I hope that they will take my bug report into account in the future.
Orcan
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 16:09:23 -0500 Orcan Ogetbil oget.fedora@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
On list this time....
2009/3/4 Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com:
Anyone have any thoughts about doing this update in F10?
+1
If a font can no longer be built for some reason then we should contact the FF devs :)
Unfortunately they are not very responsive. I had to remove one glyph from serafettin to make it build with the latest FF. I don't know the reason why I had to remove the glyph. I hope that they will take my bug report into account in the future.
Sure. George Williams (upsteam author of fontforge) doesn't have as much time as he used to to work on frontforge. Please be patient and he is pretty good about addressing reports when he is able.
Orcan
kevin
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