FS#36301 - [fontforge] Please include cidmaps with package

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Simon Hollingshead (elpasi) - Saturday, 27 July 2013, 16:45 GMT
Last edited by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Sunday, 28 July 2013, 06:24 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Fontforge has a small library of cidmap files (http://fontforge.org/cidmapformat.html) to help map CID-keyed fonts (http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/opentype/index_cid.html) like fonts with Asian character sets into Unicode.

These files are not packaged with Arch, causing a message of "Please unzip http://fontforge.sf.net/cidmaps.tgz into /usr/share/fontforge to continue" when opening many fonts with Chinese or Japanese characters.

Since these files are only a few hundred kilobytes, and distributed under the same license as the rest of the package, please can you consider placing these files in /usr/share/fontforge during a standard installation.

Please note, there are far newer cidmap files at https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/tree/master/cidmap that could be placed in the folder, but given the transition fontforge has done from BSD to GPL3+, I don't know how mixing licenses like that would work until the next stable fontforge release.
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Closed by  Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Sunday, 28 July 2013, 06:24 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  fontforge-20120731_b-5 in [extra]
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Sunday, 28 July 2013, 05:21 GMT
Packages can perfectly well include code under multiple licenses, and in this particular case I see no licensing issue. However I prefer to use the tarball rather than GIT master, because it looks more like something that would be labelled as "stable" and this is consistent with the rest of the package.

Could you install fontforge-20120731_b-5 from [testing] and check that everything is as you expect?
Comment by Simon Hollingshead (elpasi) - Sunday, 28 July 2013, 05:57 GMT
I cleared out the folder of the manually installed cidmaps to avoid conflict, installed the testing package over the top, then opened a font that I know requires one of the Adobe-Japan cidmaps. Works flawlessly.

Thanks.
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Sunday, 28 July 2013, 06:24 GMT
No worries.

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