[haiku-development] Re: Generic Font and FontBoy icons etc.
- From: Disreali <mdisreali@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 07:40:53 -0700 (PDT)
--- On Mon, 7/30/12, Justin Stressman <jstressman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Since we were lacking an icon for fonts, I decided to look
> into making one.
>
> I noticed that the icon for TTF on BeOS was a TT on papers,
> but I was wondering what the icon for other font types on
> BeOS looked like?
>
> So without really knowing, I asked in #haiku and was given
> the idea to do a generic font icon with the little label
> for the specific type (Type1, TrueType, OpenType, OTC, TTC, etc).
>
> Also, looking at old tickets I saw that a problem with
> adding an icon to font files was that there was no program
> to open them with.[1]
I don't recall BeOSR5 actually had a font application. just that all the fonts
had an icon, "TT" for TrueType, and something else for PostScript Type1
> I and others would like to suggest FontBoy.[2] I've done a
> new HVIF icon up for that as well. Perhaps we need to check
> with the author about using an updated version and including
> it in the default image? Or as an optional package?
I thought Fontboy was on the BeUnited site ages ago. What is the License?
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