[OpenIndiana-discuss] TrueType Fonts

[Mark Creamer]

Alan thank you very much and happy holidays
Mark

On Thursday, December 22, 2011, Alan Coopersmith <
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 12/22/11 10:08, Mark Creamer wrote:
>>
>> Makes sense about the licensing. Thank you for that explanation. I see
that the
>> fonts available at the link you supplied are packaged for Windows. How
do I
>> place them on the OI system? Thanks again
>
> There's several guides to installing on Linux - OpenIndiana/Solaris
> installation should be pretty much the same thing, since the same
> open source software is used (fontconfig, freetype, Xorg, etc.).
>
> A quick google search turned up http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
> which has the cabextract software needed to get .ttf's out of the
> Microsoft .exe's.  Though that site still refers to older font tools,
> for instance, ttmkfdir is now built into mkfontdir instead of being
> a separate utility, and few people use the xfs font server these days.
>
> Debian does provide a package that provides an installer for them, but
> does not install them, due to the "may not be distributed for profit
either
> on a standalone basis or included as part of your own product" terms of
the
> license which would conflict with those selling things such as Debian
CD's or
> systems with the software preinstalled.   OI would have to determine it's
own
> policy for handling things like this for packaging.
>
> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>
> --
>        -Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>         Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
>
>

-- 
Mark