[Biblical-languages] Microsoft Fonts

Peter Kirk peter.r.kirk at ntlworld.com
Wed Jul 2 10:38:23 EDT 2003


On 02/07/2003 09:21, Patrick Rourke wrote:

> > Thanks, that would be useful though I don't like the look of Tahoma for
> > Greek. More to the point, I guess it would be useful for your students.
> > But then we may get a reaction to this from within Microsoft.
>
> My understanding was that the reason Microsoft stopped providing their 
> fonts as downloads on their site was precisely because people were 
> abusing the privilege by redistributing them against license terms...


I see the point, but of course it didn't work, because the fonts are 
already out there, legally and  illegally, on millions of users' 
systems. The only effect has been the proliferation of versions, which 
just causes confusion and a lack of trust in Microsoft products, when a 
document that is OK on one system is unreadable on an apparently 
identical one. One very sensible way to reduce that would be if 
Microsoft included updating its fonts in its Windows Update procedure, 
which can of course be limited to those who have installed software 
which gives them the right to the fonts in question.

  <snip>

>
> The version of Tahoma in question is in Windows XP Professional 
> Service Pack 1, I believe.  It might also be in the Home version. 

Thanks for this useful information.

-- 
Peter Kirk
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