[odf-discuss] Fonts and Interoperability

[Damon Anderson]

There are several "Open" fonts available. Gentian is new one which is  
quite nice. Of course we're all very sad the Microsoft stopped producing  
open standard fonts like Arial and Verdana (one of the few good things  
that Microsofot ever did). Of course these are issues that web developers  
are contstantly repeating to every client who wants a website built, so it  
is not only an issue for documents.

-Damon

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:31:18 +0700, Lars D. Noodén <lars at umich.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Pete Harlow wrote:
> [snip]
>> Is it outside our terms of reference to put together a core set of open
>> fonts (and perhaps distibute them with the viewer)?
>
> We should at least point to them open fonts would help ensure proper
> rendering everywhere.  IIRC fonts are covered by copyright so a
> restrictive license for fonts would be an effective way of munging
> interoperability.
>
> -Lars
> Lars Noodén
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