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Sascha Brawer <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: other
Other License: The license is GPL with the same clarification and linking 
exception as used by GNU Classpath. I would not want to change this, because 
the goal of the library is eventual inclusion into GNU Classpath.
Package: Java-only font library for GNU Classpath
System name: cpfontlib
Type: non-GNU

Description:
A Java-only library for parsing font files, extracting font names in various 
languages, and performing glyph selection based on the contents of OpenType 
font tables. This is intended as a pluggable font library for eventual 
inclusion into GNU Classpath. It is providing services to the GNU Classpath 
implementation of java.awt.font.



Please see http://www.dandelis.ch/development/fonts/ for a description of the 
project, including the source code. It also has been briefly discussed during a 
meeting of GNU Classpath developers (at a workshop on Java graphics that I've 
organized during Linux-Kongress 2003 in Saarbrücken/Germany).



People at RedHat have been working on a very different approach for 
implementing java.awt.font, namely by providing wrappers around the Cairo and 
FreeType libraries. We had some discussions about the appropriate way of 
implementing Java2D fonts, and came to the conclusion that we should allow for 
both their and my approach. Each has its advantages. If you want to, I can 
elaborate this further. We also have settled on a common interface for 
pluggable font libraries, although my code does not yet implement it (neither 
does theirs).



However, the code is currently not ready for production, which is why I think 
it should not yet be included with Classpath. Some features are missing, some 
bugs are present, etc. This is also described at the above URL.



Recently, I have been contacted by someone who is willing to do some work on 
the implementation. It would be easiest if we had a cvs repository somewhere, 
such as at nongnu.org.

Other Software Required:
Dependencies are listed at the project home page 
(http://www.dandelis.ch/development/fonts/). The test application does yet not 
work with free Java environments. However, this is being worked on. For 
example, I've recently checked in a number of amendments to the GNU Classpath 
version of java.awt.geom.* which are needed for this font library.

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