Re: [Indic-computing-users] OTF Costs

[Sayamindu D. <unm...@So...>]

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 23:21, Venky Hariharan wrote:
> One of the great unsolved mysteries of the workshop (at least for me) is the
> following question: How much does it cost to design a good looking Open Type
> Font? If there are concrete numbers and names and contacts of people willing
> develop OTF for us under GPL, please let me know. Before approaching people
> for sponsoring the fonts, I need to have an idea of how much this will cost
> and how much time it will take.
> 

if u have got the glyphs, it should not take much - just copy-paste in
pfaedit and defining the tables in Volt
i think, there are a number of free (as in free speech) indic fonts
lying around which are not unicode compliant
some of the volunteers can take up those fonts to begin with 
-iti-
sayamindu




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