ANNOUNCE: Bitstream Vera Fonts 1.10

[<Jim Gettys hp com>]

The "It's Soup, Come and Get It" release.

Application
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Well, not an application.  But the fonts will enhance your applications!

Description
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This is the Bitstream Vera family of fonts, version 1.10, the first
version available under a free license.  Please discard the beta test
fonts.

Note that these fonts have tighter spacing (leading) than the beta test
version of Vera, and that 0O and l1 are clearly distinguishible in the
mono family, as well as many other fixes and adjustments.  The leading
adjustments required redesigning the accents, and took extra time to
complete.

Thanks to all of you who downloaded the beta fonts and commented on them.

Enhancements
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Your desktop will look nicer!

Download
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Please see and read http://www.gnome.org/fonts.  Please read the release
notes.  Please ensure you have a non-buggy freetype installed properly.
Additonally, there will shortly be a fontconfig-2.2 release that will both
fix various existing fontconfig bugs, but also improve behavior below 8 pixels.

Bug reports
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Even fonts can have bugs.  Please report problems to fonts at gnome.org.

Acknowlegements
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Our great thanks to Bitstream, Inc., for the donation of high quality fonts,
and Jim Lyles in particular, for going the extra mile and adjusting the
leading, which involved quite a bit of unanticipated work.

                                      - Jim Gettys

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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
Jim Gettys hp com