Re: Who wants 1,933 free .fdb fonts?

:D
thankyou, so very much
:D


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mohammad A. Haque" <[email protected]>
To: "Glenn Mitchell" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Ming-Fun" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [ming-fun] Who wants 1,933 free .fdb fonts?


Yes, I'm hosting them for David at 
http://www.haque.net/software/fdb.tar.bz2

Enjoy

On Sep 16, 2003, at 19:42 , Glenn Mitchell wrote:

> hi all,
>
> just wondering if anything happened with these fdb files.
> did they find a nice home somewhere online?
>
> unfortunately I can't offer any bandwidth for hosting, but was curious 
> as to the outcome.
>
> did you manage to get them uploaded somewhere?
>
>
> regards,
> glenn
>
>
> On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 06:31  PM, Geir Eivind Mork wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 13:15, David McNab wrote:
>>
>> Trow them at me and I'll host them :)
>>
>>> After some batch runs of ttf2fft and makefdb over my TTF fonts 
>>> archive,
>>> I've now got a collection of 1,933 .fdb font files, ready for use in
>>> Ming.
>>>
>>> Question is - how best to distribute these?
>>>
>>> (I got them off a CD with a free usage license agreement).
>>>
>>> If I stick them up as a tarball on my own web server, I'm gonna be 
>>> hit
>>> with a gimungous traffic bill (since my ISP caps me at 10GB/mo.
>>>
>>> But if I stick them up as individual files, it'll annoy some people,
>>> other people will suel their bots onto me, and my traffic bill will 
>>> be
>>> even worse.
>>>
>>> So can anyone suggest the best way to go about making all these fonts
>>> available to whoever wants them?
>>>
>>> As a bzip2'ed tarball, they come to a total of 32 MB.
>>>
>>> Any volunteers for hosting?
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