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Re: Hebrew fonts for the Linux
Ok.. people.. now you really make my go CraZy! :)
i have no other choise but to create a fonts of my own..
in the program i have there are 2 types of encoding.. ISO and Unicode... what should i
try? i preffer unicode..
Pavel
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Well Pavel,
>
> I sat here at home from 7 PM to 5 AM to look for fonts, and downloaded
> more then 100 fonts
>
> I tried them on every resolution from 640x480 up to 1600x1200
>
> Conclusion - most of them suck for a daily job. Some of the fonts don't
> have all the characters like ! @ " # etc.. As someone wrote here - try
> to write a letter to the bank - with Star trek font - you see what I
> mean?
>
> Nevertheless, I emailed all the authors requesting their premission to
> include all of them into 1 big package (or several small packages) so we
> can share them (or maybe send them to Redhat/mandrake/SuSE for
> inclusion)
>
> The fonts we need are not just for browsing. Sure - Eli's fonts are good
> for Netscape, but these fonts are not good enough if you work a lot in
> different resolutions and for a long period of time - and we need fonts
> like David, Miriam, Aharoni, Frank-Rehul etc for working with hebrew in
> text editors, word processors etc. in the future - and these fonts are
> problematic.
>
> Someone wrote me that people should copy their fonts from their Windows
> installation - nice idea, but what if I have 2 pc's - one with Linux and
> one with Windows? the Windows license forbid me to use any part of
> windows with 1 license at 2 places at the same time. Another issue is if
> you think a year or 2 ahead when Israeli software houses do port their
> applications to Linux - then an avrage office will have Linux install,
> not Windows install - and will not be able to get those fonts.
>
> FYI.
>
> Hetz
>
> Pavel Bibergal wrote:
> >
> > People, people.. i can see for sure that u had never messed up with graphic... :)
> >
> > first.. it is not so hard to create a fonts of our own..
> > second.. check this site http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/fonts.asp
> > it have a milions of fonts.. must be some hebrew ones too..
> > pavel
> >
>
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