./fonts/geoslab703-ttf, Free TrueType fonts from Bitstream, useful for web viewing

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 20010522nb5, Package name: geoslab703-ttf-20010522nb5, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

This package installs two free TrueType fonts, they are useful for web viewing.

The typeface is Geometric Slabserif 703, which is Bitstream's version of
Memphis a typeface designed in 1930 by Rudolph Weiss. While it may seem odd
that a typeface designed 65 years ago would look good on-screen today,
the reason has to do with the shape of the letterforms themselves.

They have a simple, geometric shape, and their serifs (the small protrusions
from the ends of the letter) are in the "slab" family, which means they, too,
are simple. The "x-height" (the height of the lowercase letter "x") is
relatively large, but not so large that it makes reading difficult in the web
where there is little real control over leading (the space between the lines).

Bitstream is supplying these typefaces to help you see the importance of type
on the web. Once you see how different web pages can look just by changing the
typeface, and how much easier they can be to read, you'll see the importance of
typographic choice on the web.


Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

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   2021-10-26 12:28:41 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (864) 
Log message:
fonts: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes
   2021-10-07 16:05:29 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (864) 
Log message:
fonts: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2015-11-03 21:45:25 by Alistair G. Crooks | Files touched by this commit (776) 
Log message:
Add SHA512 digests for distfiles for fonts category

Problems found locating distfiles:
	Package acroread7-chsfont: missing distfile acrobat7-fonts/chsfont.tar.gz
	Package acroread7-font-share: missing distfile acrobat7-fonts/korfont.tar.gz
	Package acroread7-korfont: missing distfile acrobat7-fonts/korfont.tar.gz
	Package acroread9-chtfont: missing distfile \ 
acrobat9-fonts/FontPack910_cht_i486-linux.tar.bz2
	Package acroread9-jpnfont: missing distfile \ 
acrobat9-fonts/FontPack910_jpn_i486-linux.tar.bz2
	Package cyberbase-ttf: missing distfile cyberbit-ttf/Cyberbase.ZIP
	Package cyberbit-ttf: missing distfile cyberbit-ttf/Cyberbit.ZIP
	Package pixel-sagas-startrek: missing distfile PS_Font_Fontana.zip
	Package pixel-sagas-startrek: missing distfile PS_Font_Montalban.zip
	Package pixel-sagas-startrek: missing distfile PS_Font_Probert.zip
	Package pixel-sagas-startrek: missing distfile PS_Font_Sternbach.zip
	Package pixel-sagas-startrek: missing distfile PS_Font_Trek_Arrowcaps.zip
	Package umefont-ttf: missing distfile umefont_560.tar.xz

Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden).  All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
   2015-07-04 18:18:44 by Joerg Sonnenberger | Files touched by this commit (222) 
Log message:
Remove USE_X11BASE and X11PREFIX.
   2014-06-01 18:35:38 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (216) 
Log message:
Move fonts from lib/X11/fonts to share/fonts/X11.

As discussed on tech-pkg.

Bump PKGREVISION.
   2012-10-03 20:28:33 by Aleksej Saushev | Files touched by this commit (154) 
Log message:
Drop superfluous PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT, "user-destdir" is default these days.
   2008-03-03 21:17:13 by Johnny C. Lam | Files touched by this commit (43) 
Log message:
Mechanical changes to add DESTDIR support to packages that install
their files via a custom do-install target.
   2006-03-04 22:31:14 by Johnny C. Lam | Files touched by this commit (2257) 
Log message:
Point MAINTAINER to pkgsrc-users@NetBSD.org in the case where no
developer is officially maintaining the package.

The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to \ 
"pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list).  Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.