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Liberation Fonts Increase Interoperability For Linux Users

hweimer writes "Most problems when opening Word documents under GNU/Linux are due to missing fonts. Therefore, Red Hat published a set of fonts metric-compatible with the Windows core fonts last year. However, there were some concerns regarding the licensing that prevented many other distros to ship them. We finally managed to settle these problems, leading to better document interoperability for all GNU/Linux users."

Web Shop Design: Font Fantastic

Fonts have personalities of their own and are used as decorative elements to convey a certain look and feel for products and businesses. When employed appropriately, they can be used to reinforce your message to your customers. So, for example, lawyers and doctors use conservative fonts to indicate their professionalism and graphic designers and artists use fancy fonts that reinforce the idea that they are creative people.

Artist creates portraits made entirely from type fonts

An American artist has created four striking portraits of women - entirely of type from particular fonts.

GUI firm allies with multilingual font vendor

Lightweight graphics stack company Fluffy Spider Technologies (FST) has forged an alliance with a Taiwan-based company specializing in multilingual fonts. FST and Arphic Technology will work together to develop "intuitive multilingual interfaces" for a variety of Linux-compatible consumer electronics devices and smartphones, say the companies.

Themes for Silverlight Applications

A theming system for Silverlight 2 apps... This post steps you through creating a set of theme assets, adding customizability of themes (colors and fonts in the sample), and using them in an application. More...

KDE at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 (KDE.News)

The Libre Graphics Meeting brings together developers of free graphics software in the widest sense of the word as well as the users: artists, photographers, designers and publishers. Whether you are interested in fonts, photography, panoramas, digital art, mathematics, colour theory, vector libraries, applications, file formats, interoperability, user interaction, typesetting, text layouting, 3D modeling or animation, or all of those, the Libre Graphics Meeting is the meeting to attend. This year's program had a particularly good mix of introductory and in-depth presentations. No topic was left unexplored, and the great thing is: everyone was talking to everyone and came home with new ideas, new initiatives for cross-project cooperation and integration.

NIST Publishes Preview of Math Reference

An anonymous reader writes "Abramowitz & Stegun has been one of the most authoritative references for special functions and engineering mathematics since the 1960s, when it was published by the US Bureau of Standards (now NIST). NIST has been working on an freely-available online updated version to this legendary reference for years. A preview of the digital library of mathematical functions (which uses MathML and requires some of its fonts) is now available from NIST's website."


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