Re: Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-12-22 Thread Jay Chiu
Can someone tell me where I can purchase some fonts to use with Fop, or what exact product from Adobe I should purchase? Thanks a lot. Jay Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag On

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-12-22 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Some thoughts: - You can probably use the fonts installed on your system without having to purchase a separate license. You simply have to be careful about embedding the font because some fonts don't allow that (TTFReader will tell you). Also, look into the license text of the respective fonts so

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-12-19 Thread Jay Chiu
I come to the same question as Peter B. West posted 06/2004. I am converting html reports to pdf reports and needs the basic fonts that IE and netscape suport. I do not mind to purchase the fonts, if it is not too expensive. Peter and Paul, did you find out some solution to get some

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-06-06 Thread Peter B. West
Paul Tremblay wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 12:45:00AM +1000, Peter B. West wrote: What did you download, and where did you get the pfm fonts? I have just downloaded the unix distribution, and it includes only afm and pfb fonts. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gs-fonts/ I am guessing that

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-06-06 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:44:39PM +1000, Peter B. West wrote: Paul, The files I am talking about come from the links on the AMS page - http://www.ams.org/tex/type1-fonts.html I have downloaded the unix and the pc font sets. The unix set comes with only pfb and afm files, in the pfb

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-06-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 07:13:36PM +0200, J.Pietschmann wrote: Ghostscript and KDE come with completely free fonts, and I've seen TTF conversion for them. I'm just too lazy right know to search through their distributions for the actual font names and fedd this into Google. I als vaguely

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-06-05 Thread Peter B. West
Paul Tremblay wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 07:13:36PM +0200, J.Pietschmann wrote: Ghostscript and KDE come with completely free fonts, and I've seen TTF conversion for them. I'm just too lazy right know to search through their distributions for the actual font names and fedd this into Google. I

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-06-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:31:36PM +1000, Peter B. West wrote: The American Mathematical Society has the copyright on the Computer Modern fonts. http://www.ams.org/tex/type1-fonts.html These are available in Type 1 format. In addition, there are AMS-developed fonts for mathematics.

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-06-05 Thread Peter B. West
Paul Tremblay wrote: On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:31:36PM +1000, Peter B. West wrote: The American Mathematical Society has the copyright on the Computer Modern fonts. http://www.ams.org/tex/type1-fonts.html These are available in Type 1 format. In addition, there are AMS-developed fonts for

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-06-05 Thread J.Pietschmann
Paul Tremblay wrote: I have these fonts on my system. But I don't see any font.pfb file. Well, I think I've seen ready-to-use TTF for the fonts coming with GhostScript elsewhere, I just don't remember the Google query to get them. J.Pietschmann

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-06-05 Thread Peter B. West
Paul Tremblay wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 03:54:39PM +1000, Peter B. West wrote: quote These fonts are available in Macintosh and PFB (binary Type 1) outline formats. Users requiring the fonts in PFA (ASCII Type 1) form should convert them with the aid of one of the following tools,

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-06-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 12:45:00AM +1000, Peter B. West wrote: What did you download, and where did you get the pfm fonts? I have just downloaded the unix distribution, and it includes only afm and pfb fonts. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gs-fonts/ I am guessing that this site

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-06-05 Thread Simon Pepping
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 02:16:59AM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote: I also notice that with cmb10, I get only a limited range of characters, up to unicode values 128 (ASCII). cmb10 is one of the original Computer Modern fonts of Donald Knuth. All these fonts contain 128 characters. On a X Window

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-06-04 Thread Peter B. West
J.Pietschmann wrote: Paul Tremblay wrote: So what exactly is a font? I thought a font was more like a data file. Well, a program is a data file, interpreted by the processor. You know, there's always a level where the distinction between programs and data is blurry. In terms of copyright, the

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-06-03 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 06:04:32PM +0100, Mike Brodbelt wrote: I don't know the details for PostScript fonts, but TrueType fonts are considered as small programs which, when executed with the correct font engine, draw the correct glyphs on the screen. While the glyph shapes themselves can't

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-06-03 Thread J.Pietschmann
Paul Tremblay wrote: So what exactly is a font? I thought a font was more like a data file. Well, a program is a data file, interpreted by the processor. You know, there's always a level where the distinction between programs and data is blurry. In terms of copyright, the distinction doesn't

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-06-01 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Paul Tremblay wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:46:20AM +0200, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: Sure! Happens all the time... Concerning Chris' question about the legal issues, that's a whole different story (--the details of which I'm not too familiar with) I been doing a lot of googling. It

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-05-28 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:46:20AM +0200, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: Sure! Happens all the time... Concerning Chris' question about the legal issues, that's a whole different story (--the details of which I'm not too familiar with) I been doing a lot of googling. It turns out that you can't

RE: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Warr
Can't you just grab them out of the windows/fonts directory? Or am I talking out my clack? Chris. -Original Message- From: Paul Tremblay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 26 May 2004 11:51 AM To: fop mailing list Subject: Where to download high-quality fonts I think I'm

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-05-26 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:45:04AM +1000, Chris Warr wrote: Can't you just grab them out of the windows/fonts directory? Or am I talking out my clack? Can you? I have a linux box. My girlfriend has a Macintosh, which puts fonts in some type of suitcase. If you can just grab those

RE: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Warr
Pretty sure that's how we got our Arial font in there, don't know about the legal issues though. -Original Message- From: Paul Tremblay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 26 May 2004 12:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Where to download high-quality fonts On Wed, May 26

RE: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-05-26 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
-Original Message- From: Paul Tremblay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, snip / Anyone every take a Windows font and use it in fop? Sure! Happens all the time... Concerning Chris' question about the legal issues, that's a whole different story (--the details of which I'm not too