[gentium] gentium -> victor?

[pavel.farar at centrum.cz]

Hi Karl,

here are the updated fonts. I still used the old FontForge.

The developer version of GentiumPlus fonts contains PostScript
flavoured otf fonts. They have no kerning, but they have
PostScript curves and hinting. I would definitely use them as
a base for the Type 1 fonts (and take the kerning from ttf).
However,I think that it would complicate the conversion now if
I would convert the two styles of GentiumPlus and the two
styles of Gentium diferently.

There is an anouncement that the two remaining standard styles
of GentiumPlus should appear soon (however I read it already
before the version 5 appeared). It also looks like the kerning
should be improved.

I seems to me that it will be even more _major_ update of the
fonts than the current one and I would rewrite the conversion
scripts appropriately.

I think that it is less important to use newer version of
FontForge than to use the original PostScript curves
and hints provided by Victor. I really appreciate that
he provided the otf fonts.

All best,
Pavel

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> Od: Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>
> Komu: <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com>
> Datum: 10.04.2015 03:47
> Předmět: Re: gentium -> victor?
>
> CC: gentium at tug.org
>- ask Victor for approval (Karl)
>
>I changed ff-gentium.pe to describe Gentium Plus 5.000 as a "major
>update" (per the sil web site) instead of a "maintenance release".  I
>suspected that Victor would be happier that way.
>
>However, my version of fontforge is too old to regenerate the pfb's.
>That is, it runs to completion and generates something, but the results
>don't have the same hinting, or many other differences.  So I don't want
>to send that to Victor.
>
>So ... Pavel, can you regenerate the pfb's please?
>
>(Also, I see the fontforge version you used dates from 2012.  I wouldn't
>be surprised if a newer version had better results in some details.  Not
>that I propose that it needs to be tried right now, but something to
>think about for the future.)
>
>thanks,
>k
>
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