[ft-devel] New FontVal slides / State of Libre Graphics 2017 (Re: CREATE Digest, Vol 137, Issue 1)

[Hin-Tak Leung]

Hi,

(I'll shorten further for "State of Libre Graphics 2017"...)

For a while, I have been thinking about updating the FontVal slides I gave my 
talk last year, so it is just as well. I have dumped all that's changed in the 
last 12 months in about 20 slides (about half of them just screenshots...) - in 
no particular order:
http://htl10.users.sf.net/FontVal-LG2017.pdf

The 2nd half of which was some screenshots about hinting and rendering 
difference of IE vs firefox, both on windows 7. It is a shorter/neater version 
of http://htl10.users.sf.net/craphinting.pdf
I shared with some people a few weeks ago, about some crap hinting I saw on 
windows machine with a partcular web site.

Last year in LG 2016 April, I had no idea how to continue and finish the 
missing pieces - then in July, I released 2.0 - re-implemented the missing part 
of GUI before that, and heavily patched freetype for the hinting check. Before 
and after, python scripting happened - had a built-in IronPython interpreter in 
May 2016, and the customized Freetype hinting diagnostics backend is accessible 
from freetype-py with a python (CPython) based alternative command-line 
frontend last month. 

As far as the libre community goes, font reports for fedora 24 shipped fonts 
were up at http://htl10.users.sf.net/tmp/FontVal-test-results-2016July/ . I'll 
re-test around August on fedora 26 to see how libre fonts have improved, or 
not. I hope to see some changes.

last year's was at:
http://htl10.users.sf.net/FontVal-LG2016.pdf

The 2nd half of FontVal-LG2017.pdf and the whole of craphinting.pdf are all 
screenshots from windows. I see Microsoft tries a bit more on the OS side, and 
also libre fonts tend not to do much about hinting; so one only sees 
dramatically bad hinting on windows with IE; this seems to be a commercial font 
vendor and non-libre OS's concern. OTOH, most people in the world are still 
using windows...

Anyway, I am posting this early, because tomorrow and the next couple of days 
is a big font event in Berlin (I am not going, but hope to generate some 
discussion). I'll trim the slides and this e-mail down further for "State of 
Libre  Graphics 2017".

Hin-Tak

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 Message: 1
 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 17:02:49 +0200
 From: Simon Budig <address@hidden>
 To: Create ML <address@hidden>
 Subject: [CREATE] State of Libre
 Graphics 2017

 Hi everybody.
 
 I'll be hosting the "State of Libre
 Graphics" presentation this year.
 
 This is the update from the many
 software, curation publication and
 umbrella projects of our Libre Graphics
 community.
 
 For each project we want a title slide
 and one, none, or two content
 slides. The title slides should/could
 contain name of project, logo and
 perhaps a brief tag-line
 for/description of the project. The content
 slides should be about changes in the
 last year; as well as perhaps
 plans for the near future, it is good
 if the slides are a mostly visual;
 with speaker notes with context for
 what to to say with the slides.
 
 Naming of files:
 
 projectname-0.png (or .jpg)
 projectname-1.png
 projectname-2.png
 projectname.txt
 
 The graphics files should be 1920x1080
 – if they are not; they will be
 resized to fit. Feel free to bundle the
 files all in a tarball or
 zipfile, and send them as an attachment
 to address@hidden
 in an email
 with ‘State of Libre Graphics’ as
 part of the subject.
 
 For projects focused on
 video/animation; an up to 100second
 video/animation with audio would be
 welcome instead of slides 1 and 2.
 If this option is taken, upload the
 video somewhere and provide an URL
 for fetching it. As I am not 100% sure
 if I can present them in a
 somewhat seamless manner I'd appreciate
 if you could prepare some slides
 as well as a fallback solution.
 
 Content should be submitted by
 Wednesday the 14th of April, a week
 before LGM.
 
 Thanks all, looking forward to LGM.
 
 Bye,
         Simon