http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2007/11/02/respectlovecontributorsusershow-one-can-progress-with-indic-bits/ A collection of jottings on various issues that excite no one else Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:52:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2007/11/02/respectlovecontributorsusershow-one-can-progress-with-indic-bits/comment-page-1/#comment-38373 Understanding » Blog Archive » Use Scribus To Test Printed Output Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:23:13 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2007/11/02/respectlovecontributorsusershow-one-can-progress-with-indic-bits/#comment-38373 [...] A Indic free software activist commented on the lack of good indic fonts just yesterday: Fonts: As on date, most distributions use a limited set of fonts, or, fonts arising from the same family (I hazard a guess that most of the time it is Lohit based anyway). Yet, there has been extensive work on Indic fonts which are adamantly refused to be let out under appropriate OSI compliant licenses. Who benefits from that stance ? Surely not the end-user who gets denied the chance to have a portfolio of fonts. … DTP: Not much remains to say about this other than what I hear about Scribus folks being aware and responsive but await contributions on the domain of Indic enablement. [...] [...] A Indic free software activist commented on the lack of good indic fonts just yesterday: Fonts: As on date, most distributions use a limited set of fonts, or, fonts arising from the same family (I hazard a guess that most of the time it is Lohit based anyway). Yet, there has been extensive work on Indic fonts which are adamantly refused to be let out under appropriate OSI compliant licenses. Who benefits from that stance ? Surely not the end-user who gets denied the chance to have a portfolio of fonts. … DTP: Not much remains to say about this other than what I hear about Scribus folks being aware and responsive but await contributions on the domain of Indic enablement. [...]

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