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Zip archive for non-technical users #2

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GoogleCodeExporter opened this issue Mar 14, 2015 · 85 comments
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Zip archive for non-technical users #2

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There needs to be an easily downloadable archive containing all the fonts. 

Not all web designers know how to use Mercurial. If these fonts are going to be 
used, the TrueType 
files need to be easily accessible for non-technical users. 

Please add a zip archive to the downloads section of this project.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by joemal...@gmail.com on 21 May 2010 at 1:16
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You don't need to download it. If you want to use these fonts you are better 
off using the API Google provides:
http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/docs/getting_started.html#Quick_Start

Original comment by Ward.Muy...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2010 at 12:35

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Please explain how our designers should use the Google API to load these fonts 
into Photoshop for creating early-stage mockups.

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We still need an easily accessible download for local use in non-browser 
applications.

Original comment by joemal...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2010 at 12:46

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I agree. It's confusing when the Summary in the Project Home tab says "This 
project contains the source files for fonts in the Google Font Directory," and 
then there are no source files.

Original comment by antezana...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2010 at 12:51

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Well you can always download them one by one I assume, the source files -are- 
there: http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/
(navigating to a .ttf file, then clicking "View Raw File" should trigger a 
download for example)

Original comment by Ward.Muy...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2010 at 11:29

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I made a small script and downloaded all available fonts. I've attached a 
compressed zip-file. Just unpack it, right click and "install". 

It would still be nice if Google could provide us with an official up-to-date 
archive on the main page.

Original comment by marekven...@gmx.de on 26 Jun 2010 at 4:16

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Thanks Mareken just what I expected to find when I came to this site

Original comment by keit...@cheerful.com on 28 Jun 2010 at 5:54

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Thank You Marekven!

It's odd to me that this isn't readily available for designers, who half the 
time don't touch code, and are more often the ones that dictate which fonts are 
used on a site.

Original comment by jazatie...@gmail.com on 16 Sep 2010 at 5:36

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This is definitely a must. Thank you marekven for the archive, I'm not going to 
use fonts I can't design with.

Original comment by waveywh...@gmail.com on 6 Oct 2010 at 3:10

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Hi  marekven...@gmx.de,

Is it possible to run the script again? I'd love to use the fonts in my 
mockups, and i only find the old font files...

Original comment by cmspecia...@gmail.com on 24 Nov 2010 at 9:08

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I have a complete, up-to-date archive on my site:  
http://joemaller.com/1856/download-google-fonts/

Original comment by joemal...@gmail.com on 24 Nov 2010 at 9:18

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This is now done :)

Original comment by d.crossland on 28 Feb 2011 at 3:26

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Wow and it only took six months. I mean, I try not to be a whiner, but I can't 
imagine making use of GFD for anything of importance when giant glaring flaws 
(of which this is just a minor example of the many), problems that could be 
fixed in just a few minutes, take six months to be resolved. If ever.

Heck, you guys broke Nobile three weeks after GFD was announced and it STILL 
hasn't been fixed.

Original comment by saund...@gmail.com on 28 Feb 2011 at 3:40

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So now that this issue is "fixed": Where exactly can I download it?

Original comment by marekven...@gmail.com on 28 Feb 2011 at 4:07

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I can't find the download link. Yes, each font variant is *individually* 
downloadable, but my last pull contained 294 ttf files. 

As far as I can tell there is still no single download archive, and this ticket 
should not be marked as fixed. 

The archive on my site has been updated and contains all 294 font files, plus 
licenses and readme files:  http://joemaller.com/1856/download-google-fonts/

Original comment by joemal...@gmail.com on 28 Feb 2011 at 4:11

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Agreed it would be great to have an easy to access ZIP of all the font files, 
esp for designers creating mock ups for sites in PhotoShop/Fireworks. :)

Original comment by nathan%n...@gtempaccount.com on 31 Mar 2011 at 8:38

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I can't find the download link, either. Thanks.

Original comment by jon.paw...@gmail.com on 4 Apr 2011 at 2:36

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I have designers I work with that would love to use Google Fonts but don't 
because they can't easily design with them.  This would really help.

Original comment by jhil...@gmail.com on 4 Apr 2011 at 3:59

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How could they close it and not provide a download link? :/
The zip would be really useful indeed.

Original comment by juandani...@gmail.com on 4 Apr 2011 at 4:02

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Joe Maller has provided the entire set of fonts and some good explanations
for usage and Mercurial retrieval here:
http://joemaller.com/1856/download-google-fonts/

<http://joemaller.com/1856/download-google-fonts/>Hope this helps.

Original comment by antezana...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2011 at 12:33

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Yes, but as of today there are a couple of new fonts that were added recently, 
so we either download them manually, or wait for Joe Maller to kindly run his 
script or w/e he uses again and add the fonts to the pack, OR just a guy at 
google, makes life easier for us all and makes a download link when new fonts 
are added.

I think last option is easier.

Original comment by juandani...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2011 at 3:41

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Read Joe's post. He explains how to use Meticulous to fetch the current set.

Original comment by antezana...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2011 at 4:05

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I'm a designer and use Joe's site above to get the fonts.  Google, please 
package these up and make it easy for us to get in one swoop (and save Joe's 
bandwidth).  I'd even be okay downloading individually, if the links were up a 
level (maybe "download" button next to each font on 
http://www.google.com/webfonts ).  But having to drill down for each one is not 
a way to get 100+ fonts!!

Original comment by fmuffole...@gmail.com on 12 Apr 2011 at 4:41

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Would love to have a git or svn repository so I could keep them updated.

Original comment by jonahwerre@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2011 at 5:33

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@jonahwerre: Don't know how much trouble it would be for you to install 
Mercurial, but there's most definitely a Mercurial repo:

http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/checkout

Original comment by codeman38 on 15 Apr 2011 at 1:00

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Please make it so. This seems like a vast oversight on the fonts project. Would 
take someone there to whip up a cron job to zip these up nightly.

Original comment by charlest...@gmail.com on 18 Apr 2011 at 5:57

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It is abysmal that Google does not provide a single-archive download for the 
Google Web Fonts!  This was the very first thing that I wanted to do when 
arriving on their web site, yet it is nowhere to be found.

Using some unofficial archive from a random person is not at all professional.  
While I greatly appreciate the efforts of Joe Maller, and am not accusing him 
personally, downloaded files shouldn't be left to unofficial channels -- that's 
where you end up running into people posting files with viruses and so forth.

Google, it is not difficult to script a regeneration of a Zip file once new 
additions arrive, or once fonts are removed (if that ever happens).  Get on 
this immediately!

Original comment by astrav...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2011 at 8:14

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Why in the world is this item marked as "Fixed" when it has not in any way been 
fixed?  The bug is that there is no up-to-date way to download the entire 
Google Web Fonts collection in a Zip file from the official site.

IT IS NOT FIXED YET!

Original comment by astrav...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2011 at 8:16

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LOUD NOISES!

Original comment by paidvide...@gmail.com on 3 Jul 2011 at 5:56

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Since Google didn't actually fix it, I have compiled all 484 TTF files into a 
single RAR (best compression) archive without them being in separate folders so 
they can be easily installed on a machine.
Get the the archive from: 
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=1e24d1f088f57788&sc=documents&id=1E24D1F088F57788
%21106

Uncompressed archive is 114MB.

Original comment by andrezad...@gmail.com on 3 Jul 2011 at 9:57

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Andrezadink - Joe Maller has been providing this same thing for quite some 
time...
http://joemaller.com/1856/download-google-fonts/

Original comment by jbrown...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2011 at 2:37

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Don't get me wrong, the signature is wonderful in it's own right - just makes 
scanning the thread very hard! :)

Original comment by nat...@ninefour.co.uk on 9 Sep 2011 at 9:58

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I agree it was very confusing while I tried to look through it,
expecting it to be about the thread topic.

Why not make it much shorter and have a link to a page and use one
different good point every now and then as like an advertisement to
get people to look at the main link you provide?

Like make the signature say  things like ... " Did you know
LibreOffice can now import SVG graphics and let you edit them in Draw?
Visit here to find out more about OpenSource free software...<your
link>

Original comment by paul.a.norman on 9 Sep 2011 at 10:45

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Why not email this person per their request, or start a new thread about 
"Signatures"? Most of us are only interested in the Google font/Zip archive 
discussion! Thanks :)

Original comment by marinhan...@gmail.com on 9 Sep 2011 at 11:01

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I was hoping to tie it off with what I said but you have extended it!

Original comment by paul.a.norman on 9 Sep 2011 at 11:20

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For what it's worth, I've just tested it on my MacBook. Aliases created in the 
Finder *do not* install as fonts when dragged into ~/Library/Fonts, but 
symlinks created using the command line do.

No idea why Apple didn't just decide to replace 'classic' aliases with proper 
Unix symlinks... perhaps for compatibility with older OSes? I have no idea.

Anyway, there actually is a GUI-based solution for creating Unix-style symlinks 
using the Finder that I found on Macworld's blog:
http://www.macworld.com/article/153437/2010/08/symlinkservice.html

Original comment by codeman38 on 10 Sep 2011 at 4:09

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Oops, ignore the above. I could've sworn I'd tested this in the past and 
symlinks worked in Font Book, but it turns out that I was misremembering. *Even 
Unix-style symbolic links are not recognized as fonts in ~/Library/Fonts.* My 
mistake!

(The reason I was misremembering is that this *does* work in X11-based Unix 
apps on OS X... but these, needless to say, are an extreme minority of OS X 
apps.)

Original comment by codeman38 on 10 Sep 2011 at 4:19

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Why is there no way to download all of the files in one ZIP file? As a designer 
(NOT A PROGRAMMER) using AI and PSD to design site before they are handed off 
to the coders to do their thing, I need to be able to try out and use fonts in 
those programs. Downloading on at a time is too cumbersome .

Original comment by arthur.r...@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2011 at 5:56

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Arthur, have a look at this:

http://joemaller.com/1856/download-google-fonts/

Direct download link:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/joemaller_google_webfonts/googlewebfonts.tgz

Thanks to Joe Maller

Original comment by ebroomfi...@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2011 at 6:28

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I agree!

Original comment by chechuon...@gmail.com on 5 Nov 2011 at 5:15

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Many thanks to Joe Maller for providing the link to the fonts.

Original comment by Le.Petit...@gmail.com on 9 Nov 2011 at 5:00

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A simple way to obtain and update the Google Fonts is definitely necessary.
I'd like to also see the fonts available in Linux repositories (Centos, Ubuntu).

My thanks to Joe Maller as well for making my life easier!

Original comment by malmathe...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2012 at 3:23

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This is a no-brainer. Please provide download links for each font!

Original comment by kris.kha...@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2012 at 3:40

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the last time I used webfonts, at the very end of the process of choosing 
fonts, it gave me a link to download a zip file of the fonts in my collection, 
in addition to the code to embed the fonts directly.

Original comment by jacob.brunson on 27 Feb 2012 at 3:06

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There are currently 455 font families.
Downloading each set with a link would be a long and tedious process.
Selecting them all and then downloading a collection would be faster, but still 
a long and boring process.

Original comment by tim...@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2012 at 3:08

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I agree on this as even following the guide. I'm getting error.

Original comment by sq01...@gmail.com on 9 May 2012 at 1:31

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@sq01neo  I am seeing the same thing, although I get one step further to 
`adding file changes`.  I would guess a connection timeout, although at which 
end I am not sure.  Perhaps this needs a new issue to be created so that it 
gets more attention.

Original comment by philip.r...@gmail.com on 10 May 2012 at 2:54

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same issue as #70
and +1 for a handy zip

Original comment by kappe0sa...@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2012 at 12:02

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Thank you Mr. Mailer!! I'm getting my website redone and need to be able to cut 
n paste my own text on my own text documents to check visual font 
compatibility-- I do NOT like being forced to do such things on a web browser. 
I also like to have an archive. I went through and selected about 114 of the 
501 fonts and want to sift through those as well. Add one to the chorus, you've 
made my life easier with the zip folder.

Original comment by paulruck...@gmail.com on 11 Jul 2012 at 6:35

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Github mirror: https://github.com/w0ng/googlefontdirectory

Same idea as Joe Maller. Updated weekly.

Original comment by akamch...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2012 at 1:59

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That is a great idea! Thanks for the github mirror.

Original comment by sq01...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2012 at 2:04

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The github repo is nice, thanks.

Original comment by daniel.s...@klinsight.com on 8 Aug 2012 at 1:28

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thanks for the github repo.

Original comment by juandani...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2012 at 1:31

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Hi,

That is a great help - just one thing though sometimes the fonts have
specific details in their readme files regarding the individual font
license, are those license notes included somewhere in the zip at all
please?

Paul

Original comment by paul.a.norman on 8 Aug 2012 at 10:58

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Great! Thanks for this. Was searching for two fonts for mockups and dev. What a 
pain.

Original comment by mikeanne...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2012 at 6:28

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Yeah, this is rediculous. It needs to be something similar to how 
SubtleGradients does theres:

http://subtlepatterns.com/
https://github.com/subtlepatterns/SubtlePatterns

Original comment by RBro...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2013 at 5:50

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My dearest...
Thanks to this guy we finally have a solution

https://github.com/w0ng/googlefontdirectory

Original comment by s.nicol...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2013 at 12:10

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I just wrote a shell script which fetches the up to date archive from
http://joemaller.com/1856/download-google-fonts/, extracts it and merges it
with my server's central font directory, then deletes the download. Add in
a weekly cron job and you're sorted :)

. . . .
Pecked out on a black mirror

Original comment by laurence...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2013 at 12:48

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You can now use Monotype SkyFonts to conveniently download the fonts.

Original comment by dcrossland@google.com on 17 Jun 2013 at 7:02

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All zipball download links for this project return 403s - these can be found on 
https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/. An example is 
https://googlefontdirectory.googlecode.com/archive/default.zip. This could be a 
problem with Google Code in general; I'm not really sure.

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