Re: Bug#156503: microsoft changed its policy, msttcorefonts broken
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 20:01, Martin Sarsale wrote:
> Since micro$oft stopped giving their true type fonts for free (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm), msttcorefonts is unusable :(
It would be interesting to investigate either if a font author could be
convinced to create some basic fonts for the free software movement or
how much money it is to get a few (4-5?) basic scalable TT fonts and
start a donation fund. I think the former is more likely, but the
latter is worth looking into if the cost per font isn't absurd. (over
$5k/font? I have no idea what the 'going rate' for unlimited
distribution licenses are.) Of course, the latter really only gets us
'free' fonts as in beer, and most likely not in 'source' or
'modification' rights. Are there any 'opensource' font authors out
there doing anthing interesting?
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Scott Dier <dieman@ringworld.org> http://www.ringworld.org/
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