Fonts

  • Thread starter Thread starter Penthor Mull
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Bill said:
Something
that will work with Word or Photoshop. Something that includes futura
bold, poster bodoni, bodoni roman, and century schoolbook bold. <

Here's another Free font site!

http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts-b.html
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Thanks Bill. I was able to find what I needed at that website. That
was the only website where I could find them all.

[OT] Do you make BBQ? We have a BBQ chain down here in south central
Texas with your name:)

Penthor
 
Thanks for the links Susan. For future reference, bookmark the site
Bill Miller offered. It has a lot of free fonts.

PM

PS
Sorry for posting under 2 name2. I couldn't see your post with
Thunderbird so I logged onto google groups where I post with a diff
addy.
 
Margrave said:
Why not here?
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First because fonts are data files, not programs (although often
discussed here), but mainly because asking in a newsgroup that's
dedicated to fonts might result in a better answer.

Still, Mull got an answer from Bill Miller, so it's kind of moot anyway.

--
Regards from John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett or Doc, for instance. No
adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware,
PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware,
viruses or warez for me, please.
 
Renan said:
void Margrave of Brandenburg:



Fonts are not software. This group is for discussion of software.
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I guess I could have posted in comp.fonts originally. But I wasn't
aware of that ng then. Next time! Pardon my faux pas:)

PM
 
Using at least one appendage, the entity known in this space-time
I guess I could have posted in comp.fonts originally. But I wasn't
aware of that ng then. Next time! Pardon my faux pas:)

PM
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Your best bet is actually alt.binaries.fonts.

comp.fonts is mainly techie stuff
 
void Margrave of Brandenburg:

Fonts are not software. This group is for discussion of software.
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"Software: n.
Written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation
pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored
in read/write memory."
TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus.

Fonts are a set of instructions for a computer instructing it in how
to display something on the screen or on a printer.

I consider that fonts do fit the definition of software and therefore
should be a fit topic of discussion in this group if they are free to
obtain.
 
David said:
"Software: n.
Written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation
pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored
in read/write memory."
TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus.

Fonts are a set of instructions for a computer instructing it in how
to display something on the screen or on a printer.

I consider that fonts do fit the definition of software and therefore
should be a fit topic of discussion in this group if they are free to
obtain.
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I agree with this opinion. I would also include screensavers.

6500 Free Fonts: http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html
1600 Free Screensavers: http://www.freesaver.com/

===

Frank Bohan
¶ If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
 
Computers have two parts: hardware and software.

Fonts are clearly NOT hardware.
 
Computers have two parts: hardware and software.
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And a third part: Datafiles. (Unless you want to argue that mp3 and
PDF files, amongst others, are software...)
Fonts are clearly NOT hardware.
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Of course not - they're datafiles, just like codecs are.
 
And a third part: Datafiles. (Unless you want to argue that mp3 and
PDF files, amongst others, are software...)


Of course not - they're datafiles, just like codecs are.
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LOL. So we should never discus codecs here!

Actually codecs and fonts are computer instruction files. Ergo
software.
 
Rob Kelk said:
And a third part: Datafiles. (Unless you want to argue that mp3 and
PDF files, amongst others, are software...)


Of course not - they're datafiles, just like codecs are.
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No, they're software. For that matter, Hollywood considers their movies to
be software.

Hard or soft. No other choices.
 
No, they're software.
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What happens when you run a font?
For that matter, Hollywood considers their movies to
be software.
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When has Hollywood ever been right about computers?
Hard or soft. No other choices.
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Where does firmware fit into that? (Firmware is a set of operating
instructions wired into a computer's physical components. One example
is a mainframe computer's startup instructions, analogous to a PC's
BIOS.)

There are plenty of choices other than hardware or software...
 
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:33:38 -0500 in alt.comp.freeware, Rob Kelk
Of course not - they're datafiles, just like codecs are.
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How much do you want to bet (rhetorically) that font files cannot
carry executable Windows viruses?
 
David said:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:33:38 -0500 in alt.comp.freeware, Rob Kelk



How much do you want to bet (rhetorically) that font files cannot
carry executable Windows viruses?
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Hmmm. "Carry...viruses." Now there's a pithy definition for software!

-Craig
 
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:33:38 -0500 in alt.comp.freeware, Rob Kelk


How much do you want to bet (rhetorically) that font files cannot
carry executable Windows viruses?
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Considering that Word document files can carry viruses, that's a sucker
bet IMHO...
 
Rich_on 16-Feb-2006 said:
Considering that Word document files can carry viruses, that's a sucker
bet IMHO...
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not only documents. this is one of the recent M$ security updates

Windows XP Security Update (January 2006) - Web Fonts Vulnerability -
KB908519

Description
This update fixes a critical flaw in Windows XP.
From Microsoft: 'When Windows displays a specially formed embedded Web font,

it may corrupt system memory in such a way that an attacker could execute
arbitrary code.
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a malicious Web
page or an HTML e-mail message
and then persuading the user to visit the page or to view the HTML e-mail
message.
If the user visited the page or viewed the e-mail message, the attacker
could access information from other Web sites,
could access local files or could cause malicious code to run.'
 
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