On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 03:01:15PM +0200, JBScout [Thomas Lodewick] wrote:
I know that that are two views of two different things. but as I wrote it, I was thing of the source of a font - has it a source ? I don't know, so I asked for the "open source" for fonts myself. the source for the "core MS fonts" is open source - you can get it at source forge. the question is if the fonts that are included into it are open source - and because I don't know how the truetype-fonts will be made I can't say if there is a source at least.
Fonts are as much licenced as any other thing that is made available. There are fonts out there that you have to pay and fonts that are free. There are fonts that are shareware and crippleware insuch a way that you can not use several letters. e.g. the N, the D and the O don't work. Some fonts can be very expensive and some are extremely closed source and illegal to use by others. Newspapers, magazines and such will have their own font a lot of the time that they will not share with anybody. The problem with fonts at this moment is that documents just tell you what font needs to be used, but do not include the font itself. I have seen fonts made for a company that would put the companylogo's on a letter. Nice if you print it out. Horrable if you put it in anything electronic, like a Word document. You then get things like: We from Ø are ... instead of `We from @openSUSE are ... Where the @ would be the eye of a reptile. Or £ in that font as a Tux. So you need to see fonts as pieces of software that will describe how a letter will look like. -- houghi http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs