As Liberation fonts looking really good meanwhile Here I disagree, they are OK but really cannot compare neither to the Agfa fonts nor to the Microsoft Webfonts. The Liberation fonts render much worse because they don’t have good byte code. (They also render much worse than the DejaVu fonts which are far better in my opinion than the Liberation fonts. But the DejaVu fonts don’t aim to be metric compatible to Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New). I propose to replace the proprietary agfa-fonts with the open source fonts for openSUSE 11.1 and future versions. I just want to add some information. The Liberation fonts contain only 3 styles and the Agfa fonts have some more. The closes matches between
Feature changed by: Guy Lunardi <glunardi@novell.com> Feature #305249, revision 7 Title: Remove agfa-fonts from openSUSE 11.1 openSUSE-11.1: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important SLED-12: New Priority Requester: Important SLES-12: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michael Loeffler <michl@novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: As Liberation fonts looking really good meanwhile I propose to replace the proprietary agfa-fonts with the open source fonts for openSUSE 11.1 and future versions. Discussion: #1: Ciaran Farrell <cfarrell@novell.com> (2008-08-19 09:07:09) Sent a heads-up to Denzil Harris, wrt the Agfa contract. Everything ok from his side. #2: Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> (2008-08-19 09:30:54) Just one clarification: agfa fonts should stay on SLED11, we're only discussing openSUSE 11.1. Correct? #3: Mike Fabian <mfabian@novell.com> (2008-08-19 12:05:18) (reply to #2) the Liberation, the Agfa, and the Microsoft web fonts are: Liberation Agfa Microsoft Liberation Sans Albany AMT Arial Liberation Serif Thorndale AMT Times New Roman Liberation Mono Cumberland AMT Courier New Bell MT Andy MT Utah MT Andale Sans Trebuchet MS Impact Arial Black Arial Black Monotype Sorts Webdings Andale Mono Comic Sans MS Georgia Tahoma Not that although “Liberation Mono” claims to be metric compatible to “Cumberland AMT” and “Courier New”, it looks visually very different. “Liberation Mono” is a sans serif font (like “Andale Mono”) but “Cumberland AMT” and “Courier New” are both typewriter like serif fonts. I.e. “Liberation Mono” may be able to replace “Cumberland AMT” and “Courier New” without changing the formatting of a document (although even that won’t always work) but certainly the document would look very different in style. I agree thouth that probably nobody really needs the Agfa fonts, most people seem to download the Microsoft webfonts anyway. So I don’t think we do not need to keep the Agfa fonts. + #5: Guy Lunardi <glunardi@novell.com> (2008-08-19 09:20:05) (reply to + #3) + Looks like my email to Michael :-) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305249