On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, C Bobroff wrote: > OK, Mr Connie genius managed to take a look at the sourceforge downloads > and guess what, no TimesNewRoman and no Tahoma! Anticlimax!
There is Times New Roman there. The file is named 'times32.exe'. I guess you missed it. But Tahoma, it's a little tricky. See below for more explanation. > I just emailed Microsoft and they said those 2 were never part of the free > downloads and it's illegal to distribute. Times New Roman was part of the free downloads. I clearly remember that. The guys at MS just don't remember. > They told me to go to: > http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp > > for win2000 font updates. That's the best place to try. Installing SP3 will fix Win2000's Tahoma. > WinXP users should already be in good shape. IIRC, fonts like 'Arabic Transparent' are not in good shape for XP. > If anyone else has spotted some problems, please mention otherwise > Microsoft will never know there's a problem. I have done so. And specially to Paul Nelson (who you know). Sometimes, when Paul got tired of me nagging, he just asked a question in return: "Do you have a valid license for the product?" I didn't. I couldn't have afforded one. The only MS product I have ever paid for, is MS Street and Trips 2002. And that I paid for the information inside, not the software. (The software sucks, but you're stuck with it.) Oh, finally the story for Tahoma: a fixed Tahoma is available as a part of the latest IE, or at least IE 5.5 SP2. Legally, if you own a license to Windows and you accept the IE EULA, you can get: http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie55sp2/Install/5.5_SP2/WIN98Me/EN-US/IELPKTH.CAB Then extract the Tahoma font (and possibly a bunch of other fonts) out of it, and install it anywhere you like. I guess there is a tool shipped with every version of Windows that can extract files from a CAB archive, and installing the font on a Win9x box should be very easy. Updating the Tahoma fonts on a Win2000 or WinXP box is a little tricky. For Win2000, you should follow some procedure like what you'll need to do to upgrade your Persian keyboard driver (that we describe at FarsiWeb's website). Tahoma is a system font in Win2000, and is protected to some degree. In short, it is not recommended for newbies. People should better upgrade to Win2000 SP3 and get some other goodies and extra security at the same time. For WinXP, I have no clue. But I guess that's not a problem, since WinXP's Tahoma doesn't have the bug. roozbeh _______________________________________________ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb
