[Clipart] installing microsoft corefonts

[Alan Horkan]

[reluctantly crossposting in response, but I'd really prefer if people didn't.
Talking to different lists at the same time doesn't work well.]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:

> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 21:59:05 +0900
> From: Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>
> To: inkscape-users <inkscape-user at lists.sourceforge.net>,
>      clipart-list <clipart at freedesktop.org>
> Subject: [Clipart] installing microsoft corefonts
>
> An interesting page...if you are seeking that compatiability with
> windows-world fonts...
>
> http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

I think it would be much better to promote the Bitstream Fonts.
http://www.gnome.org/fonts/

Although the Microsoft Core fonts say they can be redistributed it has
been suggested that Microsoft did not necessarily have the right to
license them that way in the first place.

Anyone using Mozilla will likely have already installed the Bitstream
Fonts (at least I'm pretty sure that is where I got them from, possibly I
got them from OpenOffice.org).  We have the choice of a more free solution
available, I dont think there is any excuse to use the Microsoft Fonts.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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