[projectaon] Re: Can You Help...Create A Font?
- From: "Iain Smith" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "iainsmith@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
- To: "projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 23:37:51 +0000 (UTC)
Anyway, back on topic :)
I've found some time to at least make an initial attempt at a font from Simon's
scans.
I've uploaded it to my Google account, since I can't remember my Project Aon
login details and I'm not sure if attachments would work here.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7SUHgd4eWMVeGtWb3kxdkZKa00/view?usp=sharing
Basically, all the uppercase characters except Q and X are there. but I'm not
sure if the results are worth pursuing. They don't look too bad when large, but
aren't very clear when the size is reduced. If people think it's worth pressing
on, I will need to try and create a Q and X from the existing glyphs, plus pull
in other things such as digits (the maps only contain 0, 1, 2, 5 and 7, so the
others would need to be hand-crafted). The vertical alignment also needs fixing.
Just let me know your thoughts.
Iain.
From: Jonathan Blake <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Project Aon List <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, 3 November 2014, 22:56
Subject: [projectaon] Re: Can You Help...Create A Font?
This has been a helpful discussion for me. I agree, Ingo, that
publishing a format designed for printing makes very little sense.
I've got a reputation with my coworkers as the guy who never uses
paper. That's not wholly true, but there's almost never a single piece
of paper on my desk. What I'm saying is that someone printing out
their own books seems like something we don't necessarily want to
support.
On the other hand, PDF is nearly ubiquitous in a way that EPUB and
other eBook formats are not, it would be a lot more convenient for
non-savvy readers who wanted to download the books for offline reading
than our current ZIP files, and it could showcase high-res versions of
the illustrations (assuming we can effectively vectorize them).
I think the biggest barrier to implementation of PDF has been the
original desire to produce print-ready files with hand-corrected
pagination. If we relax that requirement and simply publish them the
way LaTeX generates them, would that remove our biggest obstacle? What
are the technical obstacles?
--
Jon
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