[Slackbuilds-users] Microsoft fonts

Petar Petrov slackalaxy at gmail.com
Mon Apr 24 14:01:20 UTC 2023


yep, I also just found this. However, the script does not redistribute them
-- I do not intent to host them anywhere. Also, there's a clause there
about converting to different formats, being prohibited. The webcore fonts
are Microsoft's fonts, right? And its slackbuild does this, if fontforge is
installed, isn't it so? For cambria?

-p

On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 at 16:50, marav <marav8 at free.fr> wrote:

> Redistribution and extended rights
>
> Apart from the document embedding rights described previously, you may not
> redistribute the Windows fonts. You may not copy them to other computers or
> servers, and you may not convert them to other formats, including bitmap
> formats, or modify them.
>
>
> Font redistribution FAQ - Typography
> <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/font-faq>
> learn.microsoft.com
> <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/font-faq>
> [image: logo-ms-social.png]
> <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/font-faq>
> <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/font-faq>
>
>
> Le 24 avr. 2023 à 15:24, Matteo Bernardini <matteo.bernardini at gmail.com>
> a écrit :
>
> 
> can you put a link to these fonts' licenses?
> if they are not available as web pages could you please paste them
> somewhere (like pastebin or something) and put the link in a subsequent
> mail to this list?
> thanks in advance!
>
> Matteo
>
> Il giorno lun 24 apr 2023 alle ore 15:18 Petar Petrov <
> slackalaxy at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> i'd like to hear your opinion (especially admins) on a couple of
>> SlackBuilds i've been working on. They extract MS Windows 11 fonts and
>> MS Office 2007 from the evaluation and web-archive ISOs, respectively:
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/slackalaxy/misc/tree/master/preliminary/microsoft-fonts-win11
>>
>> https://github.com/slackalaxy/misc/tree/master/preliminary/microsoft-office-fonts
>>
>> Would SBo accept scripts that do that?
>>
>> We already have the webcore fonts, however these provide the latest
>> versions of Ariel, Calibri, etc, while the MS office ones make the
>> collection really complete. I was happily using the webcore fonts
>> until I needed to submit a paper, whose template required Palatino
>> Linotype and struggled with formatting in the very last minute...
>>
>> for the record, I also have a SlackBuild that does this for MathType
>> fonts:
>> https://github.com/slackalaxy/misc/tree/master/preliminary/mathtype-fonts
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Petar
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