Hi !
I've just been assigned a bug report on a font package I maintain in Fedora [1].
From my understanding, the bug is in the TTF file itself.
I'm not very familiar with fonts (I took over this package as it was orphaned and needed by the fedora-olpc effort), so I don't really know how I should proceed to fix it.
Is there a way for me to patch the TTF file ? Does this belong upstream, so I should report it to the font developer ?
Any hint would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490830
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Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote:
Hi !
I've just been assigned a bug report on a font package I maintain in Fedora [1].
From my understanding, the bug is in the TTF file itself.
I'm not very familiar with fonts (I took over this package as it was orphaned and needed by the fedora-olpc effort), so I don't really know how I should proceed to fix it.
Is there a way for me to patch the TTF file ? Does this belong upstream, so I should report it to the font developer ?
Any hint would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
You should be able to handle this with a basic fontforge script [2]
Alerting the developer is always a good idea.
Orcan
[2] http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/scripting-tutorial.html
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) < bochecha@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Hi !
I've just been assigned a bug report on a font package I maintain in Fedora [1].
From my understanding, the bug is in the TTF file itself.
I'm not very familiar with fonts (I took over this package as it was orphaned and needed by the fedora-olpc effort), so I don't really know how I should proceed to fix it.
Is there a way for me to patch the TTF file ? Does this belong upstream, so I should report it to the font developer ?
Good to discuss with upstream. Someone on IRC informed that there are other Nafees fonts also. so, if those also installed manually along with Nafees-Web-Naksha font then all point to same fontname Nafees in font selection dialog box.
Any hint would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490830
Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin
Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
Regards, Parag.
Le Mer 18 mars 2009 21:55, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) a écrit :
Hi !
I've just been assigned a bug report on a font package I maintain in Fedora [1].
Is there a way for me to patch the TTF file ? Does this belong upstream, so I should report it to the font developer ?
Even though we have the possibility to change all the fonts we ship this should be a last resort. Having the same font behave in different ways in Fedora than in other systems is an interoperability problems.
Also, user requests can be misguided. They often ask to reintroduce old bugs they know how to workaround, to avoid new correct behaviours some apps may not know how to handle yet.
When in doubt you should ask knowledgeable people on irc (behdad in #fedora-dekstop, eimai and moyogo in #dejavu) if a request is a good idea and how it should be best taken care of. The dejavu people can be very helpful to people discovering fontforge BTW.
Regards,
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:21, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net wrote:
Le Mer 18 mars 2009 21:55, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) a écrit :
Hi !
I've just been assigned a bug report on a font package I maintain in Fedora [1].
Is there a way for me to patch the TTF file ? Does this belong upstream, so I should report it to the font developer ?
Even though we have the possibility to change all the fonts we ship this should be a last resort. Having the same font behave in different ways in Fedora than in other systems is an interoperability problems.
Yes, I just didn't know if this was an issue in the packaging or in the packaged software.
You (and Oracan and Parag) answered this question :)
Also, user requests can be misguided. They often ask to reintroduce old bugs they know how to workaround, to avoid new correct behaviours some apps may not know how to handle yet.
I contacted upstream and raised the concern. They might be able to answer this.
However, are you implying that this particular issue is misguided ? Or is this really a bug that needs fixing ?
When in doubt you should ask knowledgeable people on irc (behdad in #fedora-dekstop, eimai and moyogo in #dejavu) if a request is a good idea and how it should be best taken care of. The dejavu people can be very helpful to people discovering fontforge BTW.
Ok, I thought this mailing list was the best one, but thanks for the tips :)
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Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin
If (given the other replies) the package is changed to edit the fonts' names, it would likely be better to use software which acts on the SFNT files directly, rather than using a font editor like fontforge, which generates new fonts.
The DejaVu src uses the Font::TTF::Font Perl module to post-process fontforge's output when generating the ttf files. That module also would work well for the edit proposed by bug 490830.
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