Subject: Re: POW - Investigate Open Office Fonts.
From: Tim Schmidt (computer_holic@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 17 2001 - 03:13:19 CDT
I'll take up this POW... it fits in well with the distribution CD I'm
atempting to organize ;)
I've read a decent amount of information on fonts before (wondering why
X/Linux/OSS has so many different ways of using them).
Just don't be suprised if I toss in some information from other OSS/Free
projects as well!
--tim
>From: Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au>
>To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
>Subject: POW - Investigate Open Office Fonts.
>Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:36:10 +1000 (EST)
>
>Hi Folks,
> Open Office have got a fair bit of publicity recently for
>managing to get spell checking working using Open Source code. A lot of
>that code came from us.
>
>Now we should return the favour and see if they can help us in an area
>where we are particularly weak - Freely distributable fonts.
>
>So this POW is for someone to go snooping around the Open Office website,
>mailing lists, archives, code and to establish:
>
>1. What freely available fonts they have.
>2. Are these fonts Type 1 or True Type?
>3. Are the fonts good enough for us?
>
>You don't have to be a coder to do this and it would help us to have a
>bigger and better collection of scalable fonts.
>
>Cheers
>
>Martin
>
>
>
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