Software:TrueType Fonts

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Vera Font Family

http://www.bitstream.com have released the Vera true type font family. The announcement with copyright and other information is located at http://www.gnome.org/fonts/. You can download the fonts at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/ and Bitstream. (FWIW, Microsoft Windows users can use them too.)

Note: The Vera fonts are included in the RPM ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10-k12ltsp.1.3.1 in the K12LTSP-3.1.0-pre4 release (and possibly in the 3.0.x releases as well?).

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Microsoft Web Fonts for Linux

Want to add a few regularly seen Microsoft TrueType fonts to your system(s)? The Smart package of Microsoft's core fonts Sourceforge [[1]] has the answer for you. The Project's |http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ gives step by step instructions for easily building your own RPM from the project files to install the "Microsoft core fonts for the web"--fonts Microsoft made freely available for a time, and opened for redistribution via the EULA associated with them. The fonts made available to you via this project are:

  1. Andale Mono
  2. Arial font family
  3. Arial Black
  4. Comic Sans font family
  5. Courier New font family
  6. Georgia font family
  7. Impact
  8. Times New Roman font family
  9. Trebuchet font family
  10. Verdana font family
  11. Webdings

Note: Do NOT redistribute the RPM that you create for your own use/installation. Doing so would violate the [[|http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/faq8.htm EULA||http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/eula.htm]]. To be certain this project is for you read the EULA and the associated FAQ. By all appearances:

  1. Yes, you can download these fonts.
  2. Yes, you can use these fonts.
  3. Yes, you can redistribute these fonts, but not as a package (You can't redistribute the install RPM you create or zip, bzip, etc. them up to send to your friends, etc. You can only redistribute them the same way this project does--one .exe at a time.)
  4. No, (again) you cannot repackage these fonts for re-distribution or sale.

One final note for Microsoft Windows users, if you are using [[|http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/download.html OpenOffice.org||http://www.openoffice.org/]] instead of Office9x-200x, you can install these fonts to use in the OpenOffice.org Office Suite. Gives you a couple of extra fonts to utilize that you wouldn't have had.

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