Feature changed by: Mike Fabian <mfabian@novell.com> Feature #305249, revision 5 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) + > 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 + 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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305249