From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (e98cuenc@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 03:41:57 EDT
--- Martin Sevior <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au>
wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 12:29, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> > --- Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com> wrote: >
> On
> > Tue, 2002-10-01 at 13:45, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > It seemed odd to me that RedHat was using
> > > > something like "Nimbus Roman" as the default
> font
> > > > rather than Times New Romam or Arial.
To use what we call "Times New Roman" or "Arial" is
illegal. We've been out of the law all that time in
unix.
The trick is that Times New Roman and Arial are
trademarks, and you can not use these names to name
something else. Of course, that includes the Nimbus
family.
> > I wonder if they've done their own hack to "fix"
> the
> > AbiWord fonts in 8.0? Anyone got 8.0 yet?
> > (I'd love it if somebody has a CD burner and an
> > airmail stamp) </begging>
> >
>
> Hi Andrew. I'll make a couple of copies and send one
> set on to you.
>
> I've finally finished downloading them.
lucky one :)
I'm still downloading isos...
Btw, I guess that they've "just" changed the name of
the fonts to their real names, and removed the
assumptions in AbiWord about having an "Arial" font
(not so trivial).
Cheers,
=====
Joaquin Cuenca Abela
e98cuenc@yahoo.com
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