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* palatino fonts
@ 2006-01-20  9:23 Hans Hagen
  2006-01-20  9:47 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Hans Hagen @ 2006-01-20  9:23 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hi,

In a previous post, sjoerd mentioned fonts from the "tower of babel 
project" (russia).

http://newstar.rinet.ru/downl.php?lan=en#dict

There you can also download fonts, like some palatino and a cjk font. To 
me it looks quite illegal: the palatino variant has indeed over 2500 
glyphs but also contains copyright notices (heidelberg/linotype as well 
as microsoft).  When fonts lack glyphs one normally may make companions, 
but that;s not the case here: same name, probably same glyphs as in the 
original. i wonder why they were not yet taken off line. Stealing fonts 
happens, but here they didn't even bother to disguise the original name 
and author. Ok, I may be wrong and it may be a donation to the project, 
but even then it should be mentioned in the copyryright. (Somehow I'm 
pretty sure that the designer of the Palatino (Hermann Zapf) is not 
aware or this rip-off.) LInotype now ships the Palatino Nova, but that 
does not mean that the old one is obsolete and free.

Technically you can configure the context unicode handler to take chars 
from multiple fonts, so my advise is to use another font or a 
combination of fonts. Maybe it's worth investigating which free fonts 
contain the glyphs you need.

Hans

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2006-01-20  9:23 palatino fonts Hans Hagen
2006-01-20  9:47 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2006-01-20 10:09   ` Hans Hagen
2006-01-20 15:37     ` Steve Peter
2006-01-20 13:53   ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2006-01-20 14:02     ` Wolfgang Zillig
2006-01-20 14:16       ` Ville Voipio
2006-01-20 14:39       ` Johan Sandblom
2006-01-20 14:46       ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2006-01-20 15:39       ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-01-20 19:06         ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2006-01-20 20:29           ` VnPenguin
2006-01-21 14:43             ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2006-01-21 15:16               ` font encodings (was: palatino fonts) Henning Hraban Ramm
2006-01-21 16:11                 ` VnPenguin
2006-01-20 19:09     ` palatino fonts Henning Hraban Ramm

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