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task #8626: Submission of freetamilfonts

Submitter:  ஆமாச்சு <amachutechie>
Submitted:  Sun 14 Sep 2008 05:14:56 AM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Sat 13 Sep 2008 06:30:00 PM UTC Should be Finished on:  Tue 23 Sep 2008 06:30:00 PM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Cancelled Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  yavor Open/Closed:  Closed
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Thu 05 Feb 2009 05:10:16 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Timeout--closing this submission.

Feel free to resubmit your project later when you have more time
to deal with the registration issues.

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Regards.

Sebastian Gerhardt <sgerhardt>
Sun 23 Nov 2008 03:13:11 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi,

Is this a replacement (or complement?) of ttf-tamil-fonts, which are also free?  I have the impression that the problem with Tamil fonts was essentially solved with that package.

Anyway, I guess we would need a tarball containing at least some preliminary work.

Yavor Doganov <yavor>
Sun 14 Sep 2008 05:14:56 AM UTC, original submission:  

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Registration Details


  • Name: freetamilfonts
  • System Name:  freetamilfonts
  • Type: non-GNU software & documentation
  • License: GNU General Public License v2 or later (SIL Open Font License - http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)





Description:

Creation of Free  Tamil Fonts and make it available at major GNU/ Linux distributions over the next six months.

Bringing out a handy book that demonstrates the various tools and steps involved creation of fonts

Tools to be used:

Fontforge
Inkscape
Imagemagick
autotrace
GIMP
fontypython
waterfall


Other Comments:

The project has just been initiated following a two day font workshop(1) at NRCFOSS, Chennai and fonts are yet to be created and this project hosting is requested to help team members from different areas to communicate and collaborate.

http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2008-September/043315.html





Tarball URL:

http://savannah.gnu.org/submissions_uploads/this-is-initial-request.tgz


ஆமாச்சு <amachutechie>

 

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