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[News] [Rival] Apple and Microsoft Continue with the Fonts Doupoly

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Apple and Microsoft Continue with the Fonts Doupoly
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:13:14 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Microsoft, Apple extend font licensing agreement

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| Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp.said Thursday they have renewed their 
| font licensing agreement. Financial terms weren't disclosed. Under 
| the agreement, Apple users will have ongoing use of the latest 
| versions of Microsoft Windows core fonts, the companies said.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7BBE0DE608-99A6-4780-BE50-A9504AABB041%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo

Of course, using free fonts on the Web would be the correct approach. Opera has
loudly complained about what they called the fonts monopoly.


Related:

Liberation Fonts

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| The first release is a set of fully usable fonts, but they will
| lack the fully hinting capability (hinting adjusts font pixelization 
| so that the fonts render with high quality at large and small sizes)
| provided by TrueType/FreeType technology. That release is now ready.
| The second release will provide full hinting of the fonts, and that
| release will be available by the end of the calendar year.
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http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/05/09/liberation-fonts/


Microsoft's forgotten [fonts] monopoly

http://news.com.com/Microsofts+forgotten+monopoly/2010-1032_3-6085417.html


Checking out the new Open Font Library

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| Up until the last few years, typefaces were a neglected aspect in
| FOSS. However, the increased popularity of the GNU/Linux desktop and
| the emergence of software for designers is changing that. "The whole
| vectorization of the desktop with Inkscape is really doing a
| beautification of the desktop," Phillips says. In such an atmosphere,
| the OFL looks like an idea whose time has come.
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http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/22/169230&tid=13


Visual comparison of major OS's font rendering

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| ...Linux's myth of bad font rendering is finally over.
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http://mywheel.net/blog/index.php/2007/01/08/visual-comparison-of-major-oss-font-rendering/


Interview with David Turner of Freetype

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| If the patent owner of hinting gives the Freetype project a free license, 
| would you accept it?
| 
| David Turner: It really depends on the terms of this "free license". 
| Basically if it means the patent can not be freely re-licensed to other 
| people, I really don't see why I would find that useful. If you 
| absolutely need the bytecode interpreter, you can be patient and wait 
| for October 9, 2009, when the patents expire.
| 
| [...]
| 
| There is no clear answer as to what is best. Personally, I can't stand 
| native TrueType hinted fonts anymore, they look too distorted to me, 
| even if their contrast is better. My favorite Linux distribution is 
| Ubuntu at the moment, and the first thing I do after installing it is 
| to wipe the version of FreeType provided with it to get rid of the 
| bytecode interpreter :o)
| 
| Also, I still don't understand why Debian and Ubuntu keep 
| distributing patent-infringing code in FreeType, while they keep 
| MP3 and DVD playback out of their normal installs. I'm not even 
| sure it's DFSG compliant... 
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http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18166/Interview-with-David-Turner-of-Freetype/


Improving Linux font rasterization?

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| While the discussion continues it looks like that in the long term the major 
| toolkits have to get together to talk about implementing the mentioned 
| techniques. Or, as suggested by David, a initiative dedicated to bringing 
| patches upstream is launched. It could try to work with upstream on the one 
| hand, but with the distributors on the other hand - if the users see the 
| results because the distributions include the patches it might help 
| influencing the decision of upstream.      
| But there is no way of reaching perfect font rasterization with changes in 
| FreeType only. 
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http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/07/11/improving-linux-font-rasterization/


3 Examples of Bad Microsoft Word Typography

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| From the makers of Arial, here are three examples of bad typography in 
| Microsoft Word. Bad typesetting in Word finds its way into résumés, business 
| plans, research papers, government documents, even published books. These 
| small inconsistencies and imperfections may be un-noticible in small doses,  
| but paragraph-after-paragraph they stack up—resulting in ugly, 
| visually-incohesive documents. Word isn’t for professional typography work, 
| but that’s no excuse for these typography sins.     
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http://robgoodlatte.com/2007/07/24/3-examples-of-bad-microsoft-word-typography/

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