Free bitstream vera fonts software for linux

The DejaVu fonts are a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts release 1.10 (see the list of other Bitstream Vera derivatives or Unicode Font Guide).
DejaVu fonts purpose is to provide a wider range of characters (see Current status page for more information) while maintaining the original look and feel through the process of collaborative development (see Authors).
The family is available as TrueType fonts and also as third-party packages for various operating systems including handhelds.
Enhancements:
- fixed misplaced symbols (U+2325,2326) in Sans Oblique (by John Karp)
- added Mark to Base anchors: cedilla for combining cedilla and above-legacy for stacking above precomposed glyphs (just a,e,i,o,u with macron for now) in Sans (by Denis Jacquerye).
- added contextual substitution for Case and Dotless forms in all Sans variants (by Denis Jacquerye).
- renamed ccmp lookups for RTL and Basic (LGC, etc.) (by Denis Jacquerye)
- added anchor cedilla for vowels in Sans. (by Denis Jacquerye)
- extended contextual dotless and case substitutions to handle both below and above diacritics (by Denis Jacquerye)
- renamed Dotless and Case Form GSUB lookups in Sans with meaningful names (by Denis Jacquerye)

BooKreader is a Linux KDE twin-panel text files viewer specialized for reading e-books.

It supports multiple bookmarks, custom fonts, encoding selection.

The main feature is the reader has two-page style, so it looks like a real book.

Bit-mapped Japanese font parser is a font parser. Note, this package doesnt include the actual font data. To get the font data you need to download it from the download section in the left.
Then move *.jfr into the directory where you unpacked this parser, and follow with the quick instructions.
Quick instructions:
Complete parse requires about 4 megabytes of free disk space. This is a huge improvement over the original version which required almost 45 megabytes.
1. make
2. make parse
3. watch the progress indicator
4. mv *.pcf.gz /usr/X11R/lib/X11R6/fonts/misc
5. make clean
6. HUP your font server if you use one
7. xset fp rehash
8. xlsfonts | grep kanji
/usr/X11R/lib/X11R6/fonts/misc is the standard location for all sorts of random bit-mapped fonts, but you might have a special location. Substitute that in step 4.
About:
I came across a number of these "raster fonts" a while ago. Quick look inside the files proved that they are bit-mapped fonts, and the format looked pretty straight-forward. I wrote the original parser for these just guessing the values, basically by experimenting and playing around. Later on I came across some docs on the subject - looks like these fonts were used in Windows 3.1 Japanese edition to substitute back-then low quality Japanese TTF fonts at small point sizes. These were designed using full-scale 16 bit programming techniques.
Quick info about the font format, there are some headers, then follows a "segment table" which is basically a table with pointers inside the font file where to locate a particular chunk of data. Because the 16 bit way of accessing memory is by using 65k "segments", each file is virtually split into < 65k segments which get loaded into separate memory areas, and then there is a algorithm how to assemble whatever character by using the segment number and offset. Anyway, with 32 bit access all of that doesnt really matter. In my implementation I just mmap the whole file and read it all out of memory.
Generating table.h was a LOT of work! First, I took the codearea table out of one of the jfr files (this maps shift-jis code to the character number inside the font file), and extracted the number ranges. These were shift-jis, of course, and X uses jis0208. There is no converter from a shift
jis byte into jis0208. So I had to write one. Taking iconv, and some tables from glibc 2.1.93, I hacked together something which converted the shift-jis data into ucs4 (unicode, I guess) and then from that into jis0208. The code to the converter is about 500k thanks to the huge jis->unicode->jis conversion tables, and you wont need it unless you get a jfr font with a different encoding table (unlikely). Anyway. After I got the font format figured out and converted the character table, everything else was pretty easy. Note some bit hackery in the bitmapXX() functions which was necessary to present the font data in a usable format. Also notice cool use of function pointers to select a conversion function at runtime.
Enhancements:
- This version uses correct JISX0208 tables, and is much faster.

Gnome Font Sampler lets you browse your installed fonts using whatever color, size, attributes (Bold/Italics/Underline), and example text you like.
Main features:
- Quickly compare your fonts
- Select font size, text color, background color, bold, italics, underline, and example text used
- Preview fonts before adding them to the list
- Pretty good keyboard control
- It costs $0 and is Free software
Enhancements:
- New application icon.
- Improved keyboard control (navigate font lists and choose fonts using just the keyboard).

Extended Borders for Photos is an extension of the simpler border+copyright script, but can be a bit more complex.

It allows you to add double borders, add copyright notice and title, as well as decide fonts, font-sizes and positions of the title and copyright notice.

Support for blurring the copyright and title is also included. Update to 1.5 fixes upgrade to Gimp 2.2 problem.

Free Unicode TrueType fonts for Baltic, Central European, South European and other languages, including Azeri, Maori, Welsh and Esperanto.

Type1 URW fonts with Cyrillics is a set of fonts known as urw-fonts or gnu-gs-fonts with the addition of cyrillic glyphs.
Nimbus Sans L Regular, Nimbus Mono L Regular, Nimbus Mono L Oblique all come from a more recent version of the cyrillic URW fonts.
The hints on Nimbus Sans Regular have been modified in the following ways:
25 June 2002
- Added ghost hint to the top of 4 to keep it from being taller than the other digits.
- Reduced the width of the left stem hint for H to 83 (probably no real differences)
- Changed the StemSnapV values from [78 85 94] to [78 83 92] (and fixed up StdVW accordingly) This corresponds to the values in the font (which are 83/93 for lower case and upper case stems) better and makes the width-88 stems on M and N snap to to upper case widths not lower-case widths.
29 June 2002
- Removed odd vertical stem hints (width of horizontal stems) from f, F, t, E, yen sign, fi ligature, fl ligature, AE ligature, R, Lstroke, OE ligature, lstroke, E" variants, t, variants, Eth, Dstoke, etc.
- Fixed hints on 1 to be two ghost hints instead of one hint the height of the font
- fix bottom stem of u to have integer coordinates
- fixed hints on |
- fixed hints on inverted exclamation mark
The hints on Nimbus Mono L Oblique have been modified in the
following ways:
- Removed vertical stem hints from horizontal serifs on roman characters.
Enhancements:
- A lot of non-Russian Cyrillic glyph were fixed.
- All glyphs that have not yet been fixed were excluded from the distributed version.

VSOFont is a small library used to draw very simple and fast user definable 2D vector fonts. At some point in time, when working with handheld devices, the font functions GLUT offered proved to be too massive. so i decided to write a very simple 3D vector text system using OpenGL myself. The application is coded in ANSI C.
Enhancements:
- added vsofont_read_font_from_memory().
- changed vsofont_read_font() to vsofont_read_font_from_file().
- example shows now how to draw a bolded string.
- VSOFONT header file should now work in C++ projects.
- small optimizations here and there.