[Freefont-bugs] Re: Testing of FreeSans - devanagari script - latest version

[Primoz PETERLIN]

Hello,

Thank you for this testing and the report. I remember you reported on
December 23, 2005 that the problems with FreeSans in OpenOffice 1.1.3
on GNU/Linux remained even after I correctly imported the anchor points
from Gargi. I think you did not test in OpenOffice 1.1.4 on GNU/Linux
at the time, while OpenOffice 1.1.4 on Windows XP allegedly worked
without problems, as did OpenOffice 2.0, Gedit 2.6.4, Kwrite 4.4,
Mozilla 1.8a5, Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 and Konqueror 3.4.1 on GNU/Linux
and Notepad, MS Word, IE 6.0 and Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows XP.

I believe I forgot to ask back then whether Gargi 1.9 works fine with
OpenOffice 1.1.3 on Linux? If it does, I regret I am at the moment
short of explanation why FreeSans exhibits problems with composed
characters while the original Gargi does not - it looks that there is
something apart from the anchor point tables that we didn't properly
import into FreeSans. Perhaps I should compare the sources and try to
figure out the differences between Gargi and the Devanagari part of
Free Sans.

With kind regards,
Primoz

2006/1/31, Monika Shah < address@hidden>:

Hello,
We have tested the latest version of FreeSans.ttf (for Devanagari
script) and have noticed problems in case of openoffice1.1.3 and
Openoffice1.1.4 .
It works fine on mozilla , kwrite and Gedit.

Perhaps snapshopts attached will help you to visulaise the problem.

It has yet to be tested on Windows platform.

With Regards,
Monika Shah, Sonali Sonania,
janabhaaratii Team ,
CDAC,Mumbai
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Primoz PETERLIN" < address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Subject: [Freefont-bugs] A new release of Free UCS outline fonts
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:11:10 +0100
>
>
> Hello,
>
> A new release of Free UCS outline font suite has been made available for
> download at http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/freefont/ - release
> 20060126.
>
> Some major achievements in this release:
>
> * support for Devanagari and Gujarati in Free Sans, a contribution from
> existing fonts Gargi 1.9 and Padmaa 0.7. A whole bunch of people were
> involved in their development, including Cyberscape Multimedia Ltd., Homi
> Bhabha Centre For Science Education, and of course Monika Shah and Sonali
> Sonania of janabhaaratii Team, C-DAC, Mumbai, who also happen to be members
> of the Free UCS outline font project team.
>
> * support for Gurmukhi in Free Sans and Free Sans Bold, a contribution from
> existing fonts AnmolUni and AnmolUni-Bold, courtesy Kulbir Singh Thind and
> Punjabonline.
>
> * better support for Tamil in Free Serif, courtesy Pravin Satpute, Bageshri
> Salvi, Rahul Bhalerao and Sandeep Shedmake of the Samyak project
>
> Some minor achievements include replacing accented Latin letters with
> references, completing IPA extensions (but not the spacing modifier letters)
> in Free Serif, some progress with support for Armenian in Free Sans Bold,
> and random additions and improvements here and there.
>
> Plans for future include incorporation of the fonts from the Samyak project
> into Free Serif (Devanagari, Gujarati and Oriya are in line), adding support
> for Georgian and support for musical symbols. We are also close on some
> points to MES-2 conformance (Free Serif lacks 9 characters, Free Mono 18,
> Free Serif Bold 31, and Free Sans 47).
>
> Truetype fonts were compiled using Fontforge-20060114. Please test the fonts
> for errors and let me know - preferably using the list
> address@hidden - so that we can together improve the fonts.
>
> With kind regards,
> Primoz
>
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