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Dark Garden
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GENERAL
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Dark Garden is a decorative outline font of unusual shape. The typeface
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is based on author's original hand drawings. The letterform is complex,
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with all characters decorated with spikes resembling thorns or flames,
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character spacing is very dense. Such a theme makes it a great font for
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titles, banners, logos etc.
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As of version 1.1, Dark Garden includes letters of the English alphabet,
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Polish and German diacritic characters and some punctuation. Unicode
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encoding is used. The font is equipped with hinting information to allow
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high quality rendering at small point sizes. Only horizontal and
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vertical hints are currently used, future versions might take advantage
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of truetype hinting instructions some day. There are also a lot of
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kerning pairs defined in the font - they were chosen after looking at a
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choice of Polish and English texts and selecting the character pairs
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that needed manual kerning.
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The font was created with PfaEdit / FontForge
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(http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/) - an opensource font editing tool.
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Pfaedit uses its own text-based file format which can then be exported
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to truetype, postscript, opentype and many other font formats. This
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makes it possible to generate font files for Dark Garden in any of the
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many supported formats, so it can be used on almost any platform. So
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far, the truetype version has been tested on X11 (Linux) and Windows,
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the opentype version worked on Windows but not X11. Truetype should also
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work on Mac OS.
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INSTALLATION
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Installation is described for the truetype version of the font (which is
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what most users will need).
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On Windows:
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* Extract .ttf files from the archive into a temporary directory
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* In the Control Panel choose Fonts
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* From the File menu choose Install New Font
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* Browse to the temporary directory you chose
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* "Dark Garden" should appear in the font list - click OK (this may
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require Administrator privileges)
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On Linux / UNIX (using KDE):
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* Extract .ttf files from the archive into a temporary directory
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* In the Control Center choose Font Installer in the System
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Administration tree
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* Click on "Administrator Mode" and enter root's password
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* Click on "Add Fonts" icon
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* Select the .ttf file extracted from the archive and click OK
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On Linux / UNIX (using commandline)
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unzip darkgarden-*.ttf.zip
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su
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ginstall -o root -m 644 DarkGardenMK.ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/TTF
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fc-cache -f
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COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
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Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2004 Michal Kosmulski
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<mkosmul@users.sourceforge.net>
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This font is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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This font is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this font; if not, write to the Free Software
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Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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As a special exception, if you create a document which uses
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this font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into
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the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting
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document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This
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exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the
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document might be covered by the GNU General Public License. If you
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modify this font, you may extend this exception to your version of the
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font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so,
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delete this exception statement from your version.
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The text of this license can be found in file COPYING.txt in the
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distribution archives. The GNU General Public License text can be found
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in file COPYING-GPL.txt.
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CONTACTING THE AUTHOR
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Send e-mail with questions, bug reports and patches to Michal Kosmulski,
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mkosmul@users.sourceforge.net
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The homepage of Dark Garden Font is located at
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http://darkgarden.sourceforge.net/.
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