open source fonts

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Lutrin

Hi.
I'm looking for fonts, not freeware for private and personal use only
but fonts usable in commercial activities, in other words, *open source
fonts* with GPL license. Can you help me?

thankhs in advance
 
Most font licenses allow one to use a font commercially, so long as
your're note re-selling / re-distributing the font (usually embedding
it in a .pdf is okay).

There're also a couple of fonts distributed under more liberal licenses
---- Luxi Mono, Bitstream's Vera and the fonts donated to the X
Consortium come to mind.

That said, there are a couple of opensource font initiatives on
sourceforge or sarovar or various other development sites.

The fonts bundled with TeX are licensed quite liberally, and includes
Computer Modern Typewriter --- the new Latin Modern versions can easily
be converted to OpenType for use in Windows or Mac or Linux
applications.

William
 
yes, but I need a full set (roman, italic, bold, bold italic) of same font
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If we could rename fonts we could replace the fonts many programs
choose.

If a program is set to use Times new roman and I want to use another
font each time Times is specified I need to replace the former Times
font with another, for example Bitstream Vera.

But it will not be used unless it is renamed to Times New Roman.

So how can we rename fonts? They have the name inside the font file so
it is not enough to simply rename the files, as far as I know.
 
If we could rename fonts we could replace the fonts many programs
choose.
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Before renaming (which usually would break copyright) you should have
a look at the FontSubstitute and FontMapping functionality of the
Windows system:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=102960
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q163813

Note, that a real font with the source name must not exist when using
FontMapping.

If you really want to change font names, internally, you'll need to
look for font editor programs (I haven't checked the current status
of FontForge and the GNU Font Editor. But both are probably still in
need of much development.) Or you do it with any hex editor...

BeAr
 
B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson said:
Before renaming (which usually would break copyright) you should have
a look at the FontSubstitute and FontMapping functionality of the
Windows system:

Note, that a real font with the source name must not exist when using
FontMapping.
Click to expand...
If you really want to change font names, internally, you'll need to
look for font editor programs (I haven't checked the current status
of FontForge and the GNU Font Editor. But both are probably still in
need of much development.) Or you do it with any hex editor...
Click to expand...

Thanks for the suggestions, I will try these routes.
 
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