George Henne wrote: >AFAIK, it's not legal. Many years ago, when we started our Palm OS >product, we were able to license them from Palm. This was in 2000. I >don't know who you would ask today. >
It is legal for Palm / Mac fonts under US copyright, because they are typeface bitmaps. It wouldn't be legal for true type fonts. See http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fonts-faq/part2/ I was thinking about asking Palm. But I wonder whether these simple fonts are really an invention from Palm or have been around since the early computer days (I mean, they're 16x12 point typefaces). Anyways, the fonts aren't under copyright and there is no notice inside the font resources about the author. I'd ask the author for fairness anyways, but I don't like to pay something on their own discretion that is prior art (or "comon art" ;-) ). Benjamin >>The font's themselves are Mac NFNTs. This is a well known format and some >>of the tools that work with fonts can convert to/from mac NFNT. This is an >>older bitmap format. If you can find the fonts in the ROM, you can extract >>them to a flat file with PRCExplorer. Do some magic to get them into MacOS >>resource fork format, and them convert to true type. It maybe ugly, but it >>should work. >> >>The real question will be "is it legal"? Who owns the rights to those >>fonts? >> >>-E >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Stadin, Benjamin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 2:48 PM >>>To: Palm Developer Forum >>>Subject: re: Standard Palm fonts on Windows? >>> >>> >>>>Do you know a tool to convert Palm standard fonts to Windows fonts >>>>(TTF)? Or are the standard fonts available somewhere? >>>> >>>>Regards >>>>Benjamin Stadin >>> >>> >>>I know this isn't usual. But does anyone have a suggestion >>>for this? From Windows to Palm fonts seems easy, but what's >>>the other way around? I want my application that generates >>>text databases to have the same text layout like on the Palm >>>(only the 4 standard latin Palm fonts will be used (normal, >>>normal bold, large, large bold)). >>> >>>Thanks for any suggestions >>>Benjamin Stadin >>>-- >>>For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or >>>to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ >>> >>> >>> >> >>-- >>For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to >>unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
