Brian Vincent <brian.vincent <at> gmail.com> writes: > > On 4/27/06, Louis. Lenders <xerox_xerox2000 <at> yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > > Hi, next week i have quite some (travel)time i have > > to kill, so i thought maybe i could use the time to > > add tahoma font to wine (needed for Steam). I played > > around a bit with fontforge and a basically i think > > i get how to create fonts, and add them to wine. > > However, i'm not sure what the legal way is to do > > this; if i import the windows Tahoma.TTF into > > fontforge it seems the .sfd is already generated but > > i guess it's not legal to add that to wine. Anyone > > could help me with a quick (and clear) HOWTO ? > > 1. What happened to the ROS version of Tahoma?
I didn't know they had one. Could someone ask if it exists (and could be merged) > 2. Anyone know the legal ramifications of tracing glyphs? It's > alluded to on fontforge's web page. Good question :) > 3. Why not look for a replacement someone else has already done and > ask permission for usage? As far as i understand up to now Wine's (eventual) Tahoma font should be more or less identical to Windows Tahoma font. I don't think anyone has ever taken the effort to create a font that looks (exactly) the same as Windows Tahoma, because (outside wine )that doesn't really make sense , does it > -Brian > >
