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<DIV>On Jan 22, 2003 Travis Griggs <<A
href="mailto:tgriggs@keyww.com">tgriggs@keyww.com</A>> wrote:</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>> Gavin Scott wrote:<BR>> > Slashdot is reporting that the Gnome
people have talked Bitstream into<BR>> > licensing a total of ten
high-quality fonts for use in free software. I<BR>> > haven't gone
to see what the actual license looks like, but I thought it<BR>> > might
be worth mentioning here. The press release is at:<BR>> <BR>> There
scalable. It's variations of the Vera font, Mono, Sans, Serif, <BR>> etc.
It's a BSD-ish license (OSI approved alread). <STRONG>What I would like to
<BR>> know is how well populated they are (i.e. how many of glyphs are
there).<BR></STRONG>Today Jim Getty <<A
href="mailto:Jim.Gettys@hp.com">Jim.Gettys@hp.com</A>> wrote that the fonts
are now</DIV>
<DIV>downloadable from <A
href="http://www.gnome.org/fonts">http://www.gnome.org/fonts</A> . It is now
possible to</DIV>
<DIV>answer the question of Travis:</DIV>
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<DIV>These fonts contain between 261 and 263 hinted glyphs, and two
character</DIV>
<DIV>to glyph mappings (namely MacIntosh Roman and Microsoft </DIV>
<DIV>Unicode BMP). If I do not err, all glyphs for MacIntosh
Roman, </DIV>
<DIV>ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1) and windows-1252 are present. The</DIV>
<DIV>fonts do not support other alphabetic scripts. Note that the presence</DIV>
<DIV>of the character-to-glyph mapping named "Microsoft Unicode BMP"</DIV>
<DIV>does not imply support for Unicode; it implies only that the glyphs</DIV>
<DIV>that are present in the font can be retrieved by their Unicode
codepoints.</DIV>
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<DIV>The font names are: </DIV>
<DIV>Bitstream Vera Sans Roman</DIV>
<DIV>Bitstream Vera Sans Oblique</DIV>
<DIV>Bitstream Vera Sans Bold</DIV>
<DIV>Bitstream Vera Sans Bold Oblique</DIV>
<DIV>Bitstream Vera Serif Roman</DIV>
<DIV>Bitstream Vera Serif Bold</DIV>
<DIV>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Roman</DIV>
<DIV>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Oblique</DIV>
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<DIV>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Bold</DIV>
<DIV>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Bold Oblique</DIV></DIV>
<DIV>Bitstream Vera Serif Bold</DIV>
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<DIV>Hope this gives some information about the usablility of these fonts</DIV>
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