From 4188f38ad56d7ba2ea46e94403f305243514f80c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tcit Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 15:49:36 +0200 Subject: add pdf and mobi libraries --- inc/3rdparty/libraries/mpdf/ttfonts/ocrbinfo.txt | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+) create mode 100644 inc/3rdparty/libraries/mpdf/ttfonts/ocrbinfo.txt (limited to 'inc/3rdparty/libraries/mpdf/ttfonts/ocrbinfo.txt') diff --git a/inc/3rdparty/libraries/mpdf/ttfonts/ocrbinfo.txt b/inc/3rdparty/libraries/mpdf/ttfonts/ocrbinfo.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c2dd9954 --- /dev/null +++ b/inc/3rdparty/libraries/mpdf/ttfonts/ocrbinfo.txt @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +Mostly-free OCR B + +This font is used in UPC bar code symbols, including the ISBN symbols on +most published books. + +A freely distributable version seems to be sorely needed. Until now, it's +been very difficult to find the font in computer-usable format except by +paying a high fee to a commercial font vendor. Even many serious commercial +publishers have so much trouble getting it right that they just go ahead and +use Helvetica instead, or even (shudder) Arial. Since the OCR B font is +required by an international standard, it seems like it ought to be free. +So here it is. The font in this package is not a "ripped", pirated, or +shadily reverse engineered version; every effort has been made to ensure +that it genuinely derives from free sources and all the creators involved +have actually intended it for free public use. + +Converted by Matthew Skala from Metafont format to Postscript and TrueType +formats, July 28, 2006, using mftrace 1.2.4 by Paul Vojta, which is +available from + http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen/mftrace/ +and Autotrace 0.31.1 available from + http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/ + +The Metafont files (not included - see notes below) were coded by Norbert +Schwarz in the 1980s, based on German standards documents. He has attached +a notice, notably not actually claiming any copyright - see the file +"ocrbinfo" - saying that the fonts are "given to free non commercial use", +but commenting that he is only free to grant rights to his own work on the +digitization, because he did not design the original letter forms. He +suggests that there may be other copyright claims attached to the letter +forms themselves, which Schwarz credits as being originally designed by +"Adam Frutiger" [sic], almost certainly a mistake for Adrian Frutiger. My +(Matthew Skala's) understanding of copyright law, at least in the USA and +Canada, is that in fact typefaces per se cannot be subject to copyright +claims, so the software embodiment is the only thing subject to copyright +and Schwarz's release makes it available for whatever "non commercial use" +means. + +To avoid muddying the waters further, any copyright claims by Matthew Skala +on these files are hereby released to the public domain. I'd like for these +fonts to be freely usable even in marginally commercial applications, such +as to generate UPC labels for books that will be sold for profit, but it may +not be within my power to grant that myself because I didn't write the +Metafont files although I did do considerable, and probably copyrightable, +work on the translation to Postscript and TrueType. It was *not* a purely +automated process; try using the tools I used and see how far you get +without human editing! I'd also like for these fonts (the fonts themselves +as opposed to documents made with them) not to be sold, not even indirectly +by those Web sites that advertise "free downloads" but make it difficult to +actually download fonts without paying a fee. + +NOTE: This ZIP archive is a stripped-down version containing just the +essential files for using the main OCR B font on most systems. If you want +the much larger complete package, which contains Metafont sources and several +variant fonts (reverse-video, outline, and slanted), look for a ZIP archive +called ocrb-complete.zip wherever you found this one. + +Matthew Skala +mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca +http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ -- cgit v1.2.3