I sent another e-mail to the msttcorefonts maintainer: --- Oh wow, I just discovered something else neat too! :)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/113822/en-us "Microsoft Word allows you to embed TrueType fonts in a Word document so that you can view and edit the fonts (if licensing rights allow), even if you open the document on a computer that does not have the font installed. There are apparently four embed 'license' options, but the one of interest to us is "Installable": "The font is installed on the target computer permanently when you open the document. This allows you to use the new fonts as if you installed the fonts directly into Windows yourself." "To determine the licensing rights of a particular font, Microsoft provides a Font Properties Extension tool" http://www.microsoft.com/typography/TrueTypeProperty21.mspx Now, unfortunately Tahoma and Tahoma Bold aren't that kind, but I note that Arial Narrow IS (its absence from msttcorefonts is mentioned along with Tahoma on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts). There are other fonts like this too. Now, when you install the Font Properties tool and right-click a font (e.g. in Windows XP) there is also a "License" Window (note http://www.microsoft.com/typography/TrueTypeEmbedding.mspx). So long as the embed says "installable" and there is no specific language in the license preventing copying onto a Linux system, I think we have a redistributable container (a DOC file) with which to send out MS fonts... The only question is how to extract them from the DOC file; I wonder if Wine plus the word97 viewer could do that. --- -- msttcorefonts lacks the 'Tahoma' font https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50529 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
