[Linux-disciples] Fonts and such

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

The story with those fonts is Microsoft released them under a license 
that permitted redistribution indefinitely (but not modification, 
etc..).  Then Microsoft realized that those fonts were helping people 
with interoperability, so they yanked them off their website.  But 
because the earlier released fonts permitted redistribution, people 
who had downloaded the earlier ones continue to provide them (I think 
from sourceforge now).

Jason A. Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 15:39 -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 
>> More specifically in answer to Jason's question: at least
>> until a little while ago, you could download some Microsoft
>> fonts that were released to the web under a lenient license,
>> and are still floating around under that old license. Under
>> Debian, I believe the package name is 'msttcorefonts'; you'd
>> do
>> 
>> sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
>> 
>> See if that does what you want. It's got at least a few
>> basic fonts in there that everyone needs -- e.g., Verdana
>> and Georgia (both designed for Microsoft by the famed
>> typographer Matthew Carter).
> 
> Ok, that handles that. I can now render my website's arial type. That
> was painless...
> 


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Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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