Fonts are usually a problem when packaging games. Many games seem to pick up fonts from somewhere in the web, which licenses allow only free redistribution, but not modification. Some others don’t even allow commercial use. Some game developers don’t mind at all about this, some others just don’t pay much attention to licenses. In any case, if we want those games in Debian main, we must replace the fonts in them.

The problem is then trying to find appropiate fonts for the replacement. As there’s no easy way to have a visual look at all the fonts in the archive, I’vd developed a tiny script to generate some web pages with images of all the TrueType fonts in Debian SID. Lots of thanksgo to Jacobo Tarrio, you’ve helped me a lot!

So, where can we see an example output?

Could you put that page somewhere? Might always be interesting for the casual Debian-showoff…

How about publishing the web pages?

Also, you might consider publishing a short “best known” list for people to look at first, to encourage consistency and avoid overwhelming people with the number of fonts. For example, Bitstream Vera Sans, and the decorative fonts in ttf-dustin.

Yep, sorry, I’ll try to put the resulting pages somewhere

Some font-related sites:

http://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/Missing
http://openfontlibrary.org/ (watch out for CC-licenced fonts here)
http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Fonts

Thanks for your effort. But i have the feeling that there are still some fonts missing. dpkg –list “ttf-*” shows more fonts or am i missing s.t.?

ST, yep, it seems that my system didn’t download all the packages and thus there were some missing. I’ve corrected that

Unless you mean in the results of running the script in your computer. The script is a bit quick’n'dirty, because I needed the results for packaging FoF, so it doesn’t care too much about errors. Maybe I should correct that in the future.

Perhaps if you have debtags install and latest tag database.

Then you can use this ‘debtags search made-of::data:font | pager’ to view all the font packages.

Cheers

–arky

Note for myself: Extend the script to handle also .otf, .pfa/.pfb fonts. Imagemagick’s convert tool seems to handle them properly. Any freetype-based font tool should be able to handle them.