Re: [DejaVu-fonts] DejaVu fonts on Firefox?

[Ben L. <ben...@gm...>]

On Saturday 31 May 2008, Lucas Malor wrote:
> Andrés Delfino had submitted to Bugzilla@Mozilla a request to add
> DejaVu fonts to Firefox installer. It seems anyway there's some
> licence problems:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408497#c4

What are the exact problems then?

Note that we can't change the license, the copyright for the Vera glyphs 
is owned by Bitstream.

> Some questions:
> 1) What are the differences between your project and Free UCS Outline
> one ( http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/ )

We have a community behind DejaVu, the Freefonts are mainly done by one 
person. Our fonts are also much better for screen display.

> or ClearlyU one ( 
> http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/cu.html )?

We're not a bitmap font.

> 2) Your fonts provide a larger range coverage of characters than
> those two other projects?

Freefonts have some scripts DejaVu doesn't have and vice versa.

ClearlyU has also a few (Thaanna, Thai) that DejaVu doesn't have

> 3) Your chars are vectorial?

Yes.

> 4) Do you use FreeType? Your fonts are compatible with all common
> OSes (Windows, Linux, Mac)?

Fonts don't use FreeType, Freetype is just one of the font rendering 
engines. Our fonts should render well on all platforms.


> PS: do you know if Unifont project is still alive?
> http://www.unicodecharacter.com/

Don't know. But in general bitmap fonts are only useful as fall back 
font if there's no other font which has certain glyphs.

Greetings
Ben