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This is release 1.0.7pre22 of Valek Filippov's improved versions of the URW |
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type 1 font collection, repackaged for distribution with Ghostscript. |
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Cyrillized free URW fonts. |
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These fonts were made from the free URW fonts distributed with ghostcript. |
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There are NO changes in the latin part of them (I hope). |
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Cyrillic glyphs were added by copying suitable latin ones |
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and painting oulines of unique cyrillic glyphs in same style as the others. |
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For all modification pfaedit was used. |
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The license for result is (of course) same as for original fonts, |
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i.e. GPL with an exception that you can put these fonts in your own non-GPLed |
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documents. (Looks like LGPL from my point of view =). |
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The "sources" of these fonts in the native pfaedit format are available |
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at ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/sources |
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The great font editor pfaedit is available at http://pfaedit.sf.net. |
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That page also includes some links to fonts created by |
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George Williams -- the author of pfaedit. |
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Acknowledgements: |
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I would like to thank George Williams, the pfaedit's author and developer. |
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He is the most bug-reporter/feature-requester friendly developer |
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I ever saw in my not so short life. At some moment in the future |
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I must write a book about him: "George Williams and my best experience |
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in bug-reporting." George also greatly helped me bug-hunting these fonts, |
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explained to me some very important things about fonts and font design, |
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quickly adopted pfaedit to my needs (or pointed me to The Right Place in |
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documentation where I found better way of doing things). |
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I would like to thank Alexey Novodvorsky (aka AEN), who |
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pointed me to pfaedit and George Williams' fonts, explained |
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The Task to me. He is also one of the main participators in the |
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development of Sysiphus -- free repository of free software. |
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I didn't loose my time for compiling/installing and supporting |
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my linux box coz I used the result of Sysiphus developers' works. |
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I would like to thank Sergey Vlasov, who tested these fonts and reported |
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about bugs. Also he help me to make some bug-reports to George about |
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pfaedit bugs. |
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I would like Dmitry 40in, who did big QA for some font outlines, drawn some glyphs, |
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and explain some The Truths for me. |
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I would like to thank Vlad Harchev (aka hvv), who |
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proofread this text for me. |
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Also I have to thank RMS for GPL and URW for releasing the fonts |
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under it. |
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Thank you very much! |
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Valek Filippov frob@df.ru |
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(C)opyLeft 2001 |
