[Openfontlibrary] looking for corefonts replacements, how to replace?, and site search

[Simos Xenitellis]

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 10:20 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > > 2) I am looking for replacements for Microsoft Corefonts which are
> > > TrueType fonts from Microsoft with WGL4 (Windows Glyph List 4) charset:
> > 
> > I'm not aware of anything like replacements for these fonts. While not
> > free software, you can get these from http://corefonts.sf.net and they
> > are freely redistributable, which IMO is the most important freedom in
> > free software.
> 
> The real fonts do have a license that prohibit modification (which could 
> mean providing package of files extracted from original "cab" file(s)) and 
> doesn't allow any profit such as including it in a CD that is sold.
> 
> The sourceforge project provides: "The src rpm is cleverly constructed so 
> that the actual fonts are downloaded from Sourceforge's site at build 
> time. Therefore this package technically does not 'redistribute' the 
> fonts, it just makes it easy to install them on a linux system."
> 
> As another example, Ubuntu's msttcorefonts package says: "allows for easy 
> installation" and "You will need an Internet connection to download these 
> fonts if you don't already have them."
> 
> This is why I am looking for alternatives so I can suggest them to package 
> users.

Check also the DejaVu fonts. They are based on Bitstream Vera, and add
support for many more scripts. I believe the project has achieved WGL4
coverage.

See http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/

Fedora, Ubuntu and probably other distributions have DejaVu as the
default system fonts.

Simos

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