On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 09:13 +1100, Tim Edwards wrote: > Jim Perrin wrote: > > > > > > > MS TrueType Fonts are no longer available, and there's a mess of > > licensing restriction surrounding them. Basically you can't get them > > anymore unless you know how to do it yourself. > > > > See http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/fontpack/win.htm for details. > > The MS TrueType fonts are available here: > http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ in a nice easy-to-install package. > Apparently at one time the fonts were available under a licence which > wasn't too restrictive so you can still use these ones under that > non-restrictive licence. > IIRC the main restrictions was that they could only be distributed in their original .EXE installers and could not be shipped as part of a collection. Corefonts gets around the issues by having the .spec file download and extract the fonts out of .EXEs downloaded from the SF site and building a local rpm that you can install but not distribute. I've used it in the past and it works pretty well. Regards, Paul