Am Donnerstag, 7. Dezember 2006 01:01 schrieb Urs Schuetz: > > The font involved is Myriad Pro - nice but nothing to write home about. > > > > So what I want to know is: > > > > - Anyone know of a 'free' font (which behaves in Scribus) that looks > > very similar to Myriad. (From what I understand there is actually > > Myriad included in Acrobat Reader - but that is hearsay) > > Are you on a linux platform? Install acroread 7 and look at: > /opt/Acrobat7/Resource/Font/ > or check on your system with > # locate yriad > > Independent on wether you have the fonts or not you should check > the licensing issues.
The licensing of the fonts that come with Adobe Reader is rather unclear. After all, Myriad and Minion are quite expensive when purchased regularly. However, I found a very interesting forum thread about this in German: http://www.typeforum.de/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&thold=-1&mode=flat&order=0&sid=259 The most interesting part is near the bottom. Someone actually asked Adobe Customer Service about this licensing issue and posted Adobe's answer to the forum: ---quote--- Vielen Dank f?r Ihre Anfrage. Entschuldigungen f?r dieses sp?tes Antwort. Es ist kein Problem, die Fonts mit anderen Programmen zu nutzen. Falls Sie R?ckfragen haben, k?nnen Sie uns gerne jederzeit kontaktieren. Mit freundlichen Gr??en, Cisca Kroon Adobe Kundendienst Tel: (DE) 06950071855 Tel: (CH) 018009581 Tel: (A) 0179567484 Fax: 0031 20 5820800 Email: german-custserv at adobe.com ----------- The statement that matters in this answer is: "Es ist kein Problem, die Fonts mit anderen Programmen zu nutzen." In English: "It is no problem to use the fonts with other programs". If you still feel unsure if this is really waterproof, I recommend a font bundle by Adobe called "Adobe Type Basics". It is relatively inexpensive and contains, among others, Adobe Garamond, Adobe Caslon, and... Myriad. All in the "Pro" OTF versions. Regards, Robert -- Robert Memering Arbeitsbereich Linguistik, Universit?t M?nster H?fferstra?e 27, D-48149 M?nster, Germany Raum 01.85, Tel. +49-251-83-31958 http://santana.uni-muenster.de
