IRC log for #brlcad on 20100615

00:59.47 ``Erik hm http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1814327
01:11.12 starseeker brlcad: I'm OK with doing a SEM lock if it doesn't slaughter performance too much...
01:11.52 starseeker do I just stick in a new BU_SEM, e.g. #define BU_SEM_TIMER 4 ?
01:14.45 starseeker O.o got a response on ProFont
01:17.48 starseeker brlcad: forwarded to you
01:18.45 brlcad starseeker: semaphores should not slaughter performance, but it depends on a lot of factors -- may want a separate bu mutex instead of the syscall one
01:18.59 brlcad impressive that you got a response...
01:20.29 brlcad that's pretty great news!
01:21.29 starseeker thus illustrating the truism that it never hurts to ask...
01:21.49 starseeker adds profont to the togl list...
01:22.53 brlcad that's at least the 4th attempt to get a response from the copyright holders
01:23.07 brlcad all previous had no response
01:23.49 brlcad so well done!
01:23.58 starseeker thanks!
01:24.24 starseeker (ironically, after we found potentially acceptable replacements... still, it's a very nice option to have available)
01:27.18 CIA-40 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r39609 10/brlcad/branches/dmtogl/TODO.togl: Add Profont to the list - got the OK to use it under OFL.
01:34.13 starseeker does mild happy dance
01:34.39 starseeker working togl framebuffer and ProFont... that's a good day :-)
01:37.28 brlcad yep, all four of the fonts have various little trade-offs as they go through reduction
01:38.25 brlcad profont stays nicely balanced vertically and horizontally, for example, keeping most glyphs unambiguous
01:39.07 starseeker we want the truetype version only?
01:40.11 brlcad technically carl's 2.2 version unless steve chimes in
01:40.15 brlcad whichever that is
01:42.47 starseeker erm
01:49.54 starseeker I *think*, based on profontdoc.txt, that the fonts themselves are Carl and Steve did the distributions and "Monaco Turner" control panel, whatever that is...
01:53.26 starseeker the ProFontWinTweaked version has some changes and additions by Mike Smith, Mark Anderson and Tobias Jung
02:01.44 starseeker tries to open the .sit file...
02:05.43 starseeker is unsure of whether to try contacting them all or just going for the 2.2 original and doing whatever needs doing...
02:22.19 starseeker Growl. Apparently expanding .sit files on Linux is a problem
02:23.09 starseeker brlcad: I'll pull the 2.2 fonts out of the sit file tomorrow on the Mac - we might need to run them through fontforge to make them compatible with modern freetype, but we'll see
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07:05.30 brlcad sounds good -- wouldn't worry too much given the original author's okay, particularly wrt the 'tweaks' but it would be best to have everyone with a (c)opyright listed give the okay for OFL
07:05.41 brlcad if that means going back a rev or two, so be it
07:05.58 brlcad or re-pinging the other authoers for their response now that he has chimed in
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14:27.19 starseeker ``Erik: hrm, something odd here
14:27.24 starseeker lot of zero length fonts
14:27.26 starseeker er files
14:27.58 starseeker in fact, all zero length
14:28.10 ``Erik some have length O.o
14:28.22 starseeker toplevel readmes, I believe
14:28.28 starseeker ah well, that's OK
14:28.50 starseeker will try the commercial doohickie tonight
14:31.58 ``Erik hrm, wonder if they did something horrible, like, uh, that file, uh, thingiemajigger, uh, resource branches
14:32.28 ``Erik yeah, that's it, hrm
14:41.32 ``Erik http://brlcad.org/~erik/profont.ditto.gz (gunzip, then "ditto -x profont.ditto <target>")
14:51.46 ``Erik MS Windows icon resource
14:53.01 starseeker ``Erik: so if I tar up that directory, will it not grab the contents right?
14:53.16 ``Erik correct, the resource forks will not be seen
14:54.21 starseeker uh... how do we un-screw that mess?
14:54.41 ``Erik uh, cp ProFont/rsrc <target>
14:55.22 starseeker rsrc?
14:55.26 ``Erik yes
14:55.32 ``Erik how the shell gets to the resource fork
14:56.12 ``Erik almost makes microsofts old web font package look attractive heh
15:03.17 starseeker cp: ProFont/rsrc: No such file or directory ?
15:09.19 ``Erik hm, from the right place? ProFont is the 0 length file...
15:09.55 starseeker oh, gotcha
15:22.03 ``Erik heh, yeh, cp'ing to an nfs mount did make the . files
15:23.22 starseeker is doing the rsrc cp operations... will I lose info that way?
15:35.53 starseeker hmm
15:38.23 starseeker well, I THINK this is the part we might want out of that: http://bzflag.bz/~starseeker/ProFont-2.2.tar.gz
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17:37.30 starseeker looks like fontforge can open these
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18:19.49 ``Erik ôì/cl
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21:20.29 CIA-40 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r39610 10/brlcad/branches/dmtogl/ (6 files in 5 dirs): Clearly not correct yet, but start working on the problem of embedding the framebuffer in mged.
22:11.04 CIA-40 BRL-CAD: 03r_weiss * r39611 10/brlcad/trunk/src/conv/obj-g_new.c: refining user messages, adding more command line options, code cleanup
23:07.29 ``Erik "rocket dentistry" O.O http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1937523

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