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Linux for Designers

a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "font"

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080429

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A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Again a lot of bugfixes and smaller improvements . Read the change log for details.
What I'm missing are news about the progress of the GTK port :frown: Hopefully this port didn't died.
A Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

Fontmatrix 0.4.2

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The development of Fontmatrix, a cool Qt based font manager, goes straight on. Now beta 0.4.2 is available with a lot of new features und fixes.
If you are using Ubuntu Linux you can get a Deb archive at GetDeb.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080330

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A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Again a lot of Bugfixes, smaller improvements and new translations. Read the change log for details.
What I'm missing are news about the progress of the GTK port.

25 Tasty 3D Graphic Design Treats

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Oh man as a designer and 3d artist i would advise you checking out this post:

http://www.youthedesigner.com/2008/02/29/25-tasty-3d-graphic-design-treats/

Can't tell which of these fantastic 3d typo's are my favorite :o:

60 brilliant typefaces for corporate design

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Another fine special about font design by Smashing Magazine: 60 brilliant typefaces for corporate design

DejaVU font updated

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One of the best open source fonts are updated again: DejaVu. Take a look and read all about the changes in 2.24 (mostly rendering instructions). You can download the font here.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080303

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Another month is over and so a new release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge is available. The big new thing in this release are "Layers". Read the change log for details.

Scribus 1.3.5 sneak preview

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Scribus is a fine open source application for print and dtp. I'm using 1.3.4 often but it has its bug and so i'm waiting for an update. I was a little bit confused about the newer 1.3.3.x releases because 1.3.4 sounds like a successor of 1.3.3. Now i found a little preview of Scribus 1.3.5 which will hopefully hit the streets soon.
If you using Ubuntu, you can get this SVN build easy:
Getting Scribus on Ubuntu/Kubuntu up and running

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080203

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A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Mostly Bugfixes, smaller improvements and new translations.
There is now an incomplete FontForge which uses the GTK toolkit, which will hopefully be the end of the ugly GUI of Fontforge. Read the change log for details.

Font tools updated again

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While Gnome Speciman is staying as its new version 0.4.

FontyPython another font manager for the Gnome desktop is updated again to version 0.3.6, which is a bugfix release.



And the cool Qt based font manager Fontmatrix is available as beta 0.3.1.

Font tools updated again

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Sowm weeks ago Gnome Speciman was released as version 0.4.

FontyPython another font manager for the Gnome desktop is updated again to version 0.3.3, which is a bugfix release.



And the cool Qt based font manager Fontmatrix is available as beta 0.3. Donwload and changes can be found at the release notes.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080109

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A new release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. It comes with a many changes.
There is now an incomplete FontForge which uses the GTK toolkit, which will hopefully be the end of the ugly GUI of Fontforge. Read the change log for details.

New Font tools

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Besides Gnome Speciman, which was released as version 0.4, there are two other font management tools that are under development:

FontyPython a font manager for the Gnome desktop that get's updated to version 0.3.2, which is a bugfix release.



And there is another cool font manager based on Qt called Fontmatrix that is available as beta 0.2.24.

Updated Ubuntu Font

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At the website Betatype website, the independent type foundry of Christian Robertson, a new version of the Ubuntu title font is published and available for download.

Gnome Specimen 0.4

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The font utility Gnome Specimen is released as version 0.4. Some minor improvements and bugfixes only.
Gnome Specimen is a tool for viewing, searching and comparing fonts on the Gnome Desktop.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20071210

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A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Mostly Bugfixes and smaller improvements.

40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design

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...nothing more to say,
take a look yourself!
It's really nice!

FontForge 20070831

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A new release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. It comes with a many changes. I wished they would porting it to GTK to have a nice interface instead of this very oldschool, ugly GUI.

Gnome Speciman 0.3

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The font utility Gnome Speciman is released as version 0.3. It is tool for viewing, searching and comparing fonts.
A Ubuntu deb archive ias availbale too.

Font viewing on Gnome

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Gnome Specimen 0.2 is out and comes with some new features (a Ubuntu deb packager is available too). But overall a powerfull font viewer/ installer/ compare is needed. At the moment a good way is using the free Windows application AMP Fontviewer on Wine.
You can tweak the Wine/ Windows GUI to look more in Ubuntu style.