LOL, well, I'll take it upon myself and make the
decision that although I only have windows installed
on one machine I'll install the fonts anyway since my
linux box was purchased with a "forced" installation
of windows and license.
<even if the system is not super-user friendly, the
users are>
Thanks for the help!
--- Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> jennifer wrote:
> > How is one to tell??
>
> Well, as is usually the case, I don't have the whole
> answer to that. My
> biggest concern was giving people the idea that it
> might be OK to copy
> Windows fonts and then having them get into trouble.
> My understanding
> is that many of the Microsoft fonts cannot be used
> except on a machine
> that has a valid licensed copy of Windows.
> (Usually those discussions reference a dual boot
> setup, but I don't know
> that Windows would have to be installed, only that a
> valid licensed copy
> existed for that machine.)
>
> For other fonts, I have little or no knowledge.
> (Although I think some
> of the Postscript fonts are proprietary, which is
> why someone has
> created a non-proprietary alternative.)
>
> Sorry I can't be more helpful.
>
> Randy Kramer
>
>
> > I mention that I recently came across the
> instructions
> > on how to install the new fonts, but I haven't had
> the
> > time yet to sit down and really understand them.
> >
> > >From the advice I got in other groups, I can
> simply
> > copy all the true type fonts from my windows
> machine
> > (burn them if neccesary, I didn't think of doing
> > that)and they were good to go on my linux box.
> >
> > <Do you all see what I mean?? This is alot of
> trouble
> > to go through just to be able to read the type
> face on
> > the manufacturers website...You would think that
> > Mandrake would cater to their own community and
> either
> > include the Arial font, or compose their website
> in
> > linux-readable format>
> >
> > --- Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Be careful to do this only for fonts which you
> have
> > > the legal right to
> > > use on other computers.
> > >
> > > Randy Kramer
> > >
> > > Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote:
> > > > What I did was to burn the xxx fonts on a CD
> and
> > > install then on all MDK
> > > > computers using the MDK font installer. Easy
> to
> > > do.
> > >
> >
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