Fwd: urwvn-3.0-rc0 available

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From: The Thanh Han <hanth...@myrealbox.com>
Date: Jul 23, 2005 4:05 PM
Subject: [Vnoss-users] urwvn-3.0-rc0 available
To: VietLUG list <vietlu...@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: vnoss...@lists.sourceforge.net


Cha`o ca'c ba'c,

urwvn-3.0-rc0 dda~ ddu+o+.c upload le^n
vntex.sf.net/urwvn/latest

Mo+`i ca'c ba'c quan ta^m xa`i thu+? va` cho y' kie^'n ddo'ng
go'p.


Tha`nh

From README:

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| This is a beta release (3.0-rc0) of the urwvn fonts.
|
| urwvn is the vietnamese version of the standard PostScript fonts from
| URW++
|
| The current release is intended for use on UNIX/Linux and contains only
| truetype version of the urwvn fonts. Type1 version of urwvn fonts
| will be available as well in the official release 3.0.
|
|
| Installation:
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| - unpack urwvn-3.0-rc0.zip and copy the *.ttf files to ~/.fonts
| - run fc-cache
|
| The fonts should then be available to applications under names with 'Vn'
| prefix, for example 'Vn Nimbus Roman No9 L'
|
| The fonts have been tested with firefox, gedit and oowriter on
debian sarge i386.
|
|
| Some rather technical notes:
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| The truetype fonts have been generated from type1 version of the urwvn fonts
| using fontforge. They have no hints and no kerns. I didn't figure out how to
| tell fontforge to keep kerns during conversion Type1 --> truetype yet, but I
| expect this will be fixed in the official release.
|
| The type1 version looks quite poor on X11, probably because of the
| quality of type1 rendering in X11. On windows2000 it looks much better,
| probably thanks to the adobe type1 rendering engine, which is still the
| best one. I have decided not to include the type 1 version in beta
| releases. The truetype version looks poor on windows, while it looks
| surprisingly good in X11 thanks to freetype.
|
| The type1 version has quite reasonable hints: all original hints from urw
| fonts are kept, all vietnamese accents have been hinted manually using
| fontlab. Due to the limitation of the tool being used to compose accented
| characters (FMP from Y&Y), accents cannot have hints that are overlapping.
| Hence hinting for some accents are sub-optimal (especially for tilde).
|
| Please send comments, problem reports or suggestions to
| <hanth...@gmx.net>
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