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Font sources (Re: volunteers to make fonts?)

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From: Joseph Francis
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 15:20
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In article <9204021715.AA20334@claude.cs.umb.edu> karl@cs.umb.edu writes:
>The GNU project needs to have a number of decent fonts for use with
>Ghostscript and TeX.  The plan is to do this by starting with scanned
>images of type specimens, converting the images to bitmap fonts, and
>then converting those bitmaps to outlines.
>
>We just released the first version of some programs (fontutils-0.4, on
>prep.ai.mit.edu) that implement this.  Now we are hoping some volunteers
>will help us actually produce the fonts.  We will supply the original
>scanned images to start from; you would run them through the programs.

I downloaded about 175 Postscript fonts from the ftp server
garbo.uwasa.fi (I assume there is an equivalent server on the US
side), which has some nice families (Frutiger, Bodoni, Peignot) and
some nice title fonts (Umbra, DomCasual, the blood-dripping
"PostCrypt" for example) though not all the fonts are of a high
quality. Are these not public-domain enough for the gnu project?
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From: Joseph.Francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug,gnu.ghostscript.bug,comp.postscript,comp.desktop,comp.fonts
Subject: Font sources (Re: volunteers to make fonts?)
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