Distributing Fonts
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Hi all, I don't know if it's legal to distribute Microsoft fonts with my application. I especially need the "Tahoma" font. Is it possible to distribute the font together with the software package as a .ttf file, or perhaps Microsoft has some executable which installs this font, or is it just completely illegal :confused:? Thanks in advance.
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Hi all, I don't know if it's legal to distribute Microsoft fonts with my application. I especially need the "Tahoma" font. Is it possible to distribute the font together with the software package as a .ttf file, or perhaps Microsoft has some executable which installs this font, or is it just completely illegal :confused:? Thanks in advance.
I am pretty sure that the Tahoma font is freely redistributable. Microsoft gives it away on their typography site. It is possible to distribut the font as a .ttf file and copy it into the fonts folder and register it with windows by modifying the registry. All of this can be done with a fairly simple install routine. There is probably an even simpler way to do it that I am not even aware of, there usually is. :) Jason Jystad Cito Technologies www.citotech.net >------------------------------------------------< "Luckily," he went on, "you have come to exactly the right place with your interesting problem, for there is no such word as 'impossible' in my dictionary. In fact," he added, brandishing the abused book, "everything between 'herring' and 'marmalade' seems to be missing." -- Dirk Gently (Douglas Adams) >------------------------------------------------<