[NTLUG:Discuss] Fonts help

[Greg Edwards]

Greg Edwards wrote:
> Ralph Green, Jr wrote:
> 
>> Howdy,
>>   What did you want to know about them?  Microsoft released a set of
>> fonts they called the core fonts under a license that allowed
>> redistribution.  So, someone set up a project on sourceforge to make it
>> easy to install those fonts under Linux.  Was there a more specific
>> question you had?
>> Good day,
>> Ralph
>>
>> On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 05:43, Greg Edwards wrote:
>>
>>> I also found a xf86-corefonts RPM that is suppose to contain the MS 
>>> web (IE I guess) fonts for X11.  Anyone know anything about this?
>>
>>
> 
> I need to have downloadable fonts for web sites.  I want to be able to 
> use the same fonts across all platforms and browsers.  Well as much as 
> possible.  The CSS2 at-rules makes it possible but I need the files to 
> give M$ (.otf) and Mozilla (.pfr) the same fonts.  I have plenty of 
> fonts to choose from, just not in the right format.
> 
> I really would rather not have to buy fonts or be restricted to only M$ 
> fonts which aren't shared with *nix fonts.
> 

Never mind ;)  I've opted to not fight with downloadable fonts. 
Although, I might setup the Windows fonts since about 50% of the web 
sites use fonts that don't exist on my Linux box and they end up looking 
like crap.  Someone NEEDS to tell these people that there are standards 
and ways to assign defaults for the non M$ users out there!!!  I really 
hate having to fire up VMware just to run IE so I can read a website!!!

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