Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 42738
Make Pladao and OfficeTLE fonts conveniently available for OOo
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:00:01 UTC
Pladao and OpenOfficeTLE are independently hacked and localized OOo (1.1.x). The installation of both also installed some Thai fonts. Pladao (LGPL/SISSL) :- OOAnnop, OONaksit, OORatchada, OOSawasdee, OOThanakrit, OOThaiSymbol OpenOfficeTLE (GPL):- Norasi, Garuda, Loma It will be very useful for Thai users if these fonts are included in OOo or available in Thai language pack. So they can use OOo out-of-the-box with the same Thai fonts on all platforms. And thus no need for local versions of OOo. See also issue 10043 which currently mentioned that OOo language packs can not contain fonts. OOo language pack should be able to contain fonts so that Thai language packs can installed all the above fonts.
Created attachment 22678 [details] ooannop from PladaoOffice 3.1
Created attachment 22679 [details] oonaksit from PladaoOffice 3.1
Created attachment 22680 [details] ooratchada from PladaoOffice3.1
Created attachment 22681 [details] oosawasdee from PladaoOffice3.1
Created attachment 22682 [details] oothaisymbol from PladaoOffice3.1
Created attachment 22683 [details] oothanakrit from PladaoOffice3.1
Thai TrueType fonts from Pladao Office 3.1. LGPL/SISSL licenses. (C) Sun Microsystems (Thailand) Ltd. attachment 22678 [details] - OOAnnop. Fixed-width font. General look is like "Arial". attachment 22679 [details] - OONaksit. Fixed-width font. A Thai replacement for "Courier". attachment 22680 [details] - OORatchada. 'Serif'-style. A replacement of "Angsana" and "Browallia". attachment 22681 [details] - OOSawasdee. 'Sans Serif'-style. A replacement of "Cordia". attachment 22683 [details] - OOThanakrit. 'Squared'-style font. attachment 22682 [details] - OOThaiSymbol. Contains Thai signs & symbols, like Garuda symbol (for the state's document header). ---- references: Arial, Courier, Angsana, Browallia, Cordia fonts in Windows http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/winxp.htm Angsana, Browallia, Cordia fonts from Agfa Monotype http://www.monotype.co.uk/DynamicPage/View.cfm?PageName=fs_thai
Created attachment 22852 [details] Garuda - National Font
Created attachment 22853 [details] Kinnari - National Font
Created attachment 22854 [details] Loma - National Font
Created attachment 22855 [details] Norasi - National Font
Confirmed as TASK.
mh->arthit: archive of Garuda, Kinnari, Lome, Norasi don't contain any hint to a license, where do these archives come from ? Who is copyright holder ?
For Garuda, Kinnari, Norasi, Loma fonts uploaded, they're all from http://www.links.nectec.or.th/download.php The copyright holder is National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC). But the license for each of them is unclear. Here're the message from the webpage "Following software packages and data files are the achievements of RD-I research programs. All are the property of NECTEC and are distributed under each package license, mainly for personal and research use. BECAUSE THE SOFTWARE PACKAGES AND DATA FILES ARE DISTRIBUTED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THEM. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION." Anyway, it seems like Garuda, Kinnari, Norasi, and Loma fonts uploaded are all the old version. I will try to looking for a new version, which may also has copyright/license information explicitly in the font. (The most update ones (with few additional fonts, including monospace fonts) are here, http://linux.thai.net/plone/TLWG/thaifonts_scalable/ but they all in source format, I can't make it on my Windows machine. May be OOo team may like to have a look.). ---- arthit->samphan: do you know anything about font license?
I'll check with NECTEC. I think they might be GPL. If so, would that be a problem for bundling with OOo?
set target to OOo Later.
ft tells me that (at least as of 2.0) it is definitely possible for language packs to contain fonts, and support for fonts is part of the language pack spec.
No need for this now. These fonts are available in many places. And OOo may not be the right place to distribute them.
close the invalid issue